Lynn Smythe
Write for Associated Content
January 4th 2008 22:01
Associated Content; The People's Media Company
I have been a Content Producer for Associated Content since the middle of September. My very first article was published on September 21st and as of today I have had a total of 41 articles published.
Writer’s Payment
Associated Content pays their writers in two ways. You can submit your article for upfront payment (UFP) which means an editor, called a Content Manager, will read your article and determine its worth. You will then receive an email with an offer for payment or your article will be rejected. UFP can be anywhere from $3.00 to $20 per article. My upfront payments have ranged from a low of $3.00 to a high of $8.50.
Upfront Payment vs. Page Views
All articles submitted for UFP are also eligible for page views. If your article is rejected for UFP you can still submit it for Page Views only. Your first three articles submitted to Associated Content must be reviewed by a Content Manager before they are posted to the website. After you have three articles online any of the articles you offer as Page Views only are immediately added to the website.
Publication Time
It can take anywhere from 1 day to 1 week to have an article that has been submitted for Upfront Payment to be accepted. If you have a hot news item, such as Pamela Anderson’s latest marriage, you may want to submit it for page views only. By the time a current event article has been approved for UFP it may be old news and no one will be interested in reading it anymore and then you won’t make any money in page views.
Page views are currently paid at a rate of $1.50 per 1,000 readers. This doesn’t sound like much, but some of the more popular articles can earn much more in PV than in UFP. Some writers on AC have a few articles that have had over 10,000 page views!!!
Certain articles, such as recipes, personal memoirs and poems, will never be offered upfront payment but are eligible for page views. If you can write a few paragraphs long story to go along with your recipes you may have them accepted for upfront payments.
Promoting and Advertising
You do have to spend a bit of time tweaking your article title, subtitle and keywords for maximum SEO (search engine optimization) before submitting it for publication. And once your articles are published on AC you need to link them to social bookmarking sites for maximum exposure.
Worth Writing For?
What kind of money can you make on AC? It all depends on what type of articles you write, what kind of advertising you do to let people find your articles and how many articles you have published. Some writer’s only make a few pennies per month while others make close to full time income.
I’ve written 41 articles since September, 2007 and my total income so far, including both upfront payments and page views, is $112.00. Not a ton of money but I’m still learning how to best title my articles and add keyword terms. I also didn’t do a lot to advertise/promote my articles in the first few months but I’m trying to spend more time doing that in the new year. And I write mostly about herbs and spices, probably not one of the more popular topics.
Call for Content
A relatively new feature on AC is the Call for Content articles (C4C). Based upon your interests and articles you’ve written you will see a selection of article titles that AC is currently looking to have written. Some of these articles are what AC wants to see published on their site - more than one author can claim this type of C4C. This type of C4C is eligible for page views only and will not be offered an upfront payment. Other C4C are from their partner sites. You will be offered an upfront payment and the article will be added to the partner site only which means it is not eligible for page views on AC.
I wrote a couple of C4C holiday articles which were published for PV only on AC. They seem to be doing pretty well and didn’t take long to write. I’ve written one C4C for one of the partner sites for $8.50 UFP. The partner site is still being developed so I don’t know if the article will be published once that site has gone live or not. The article, which I wrote back on October 22, was just published to AC a few days ago so now it is eligible for page views. But I think this might mean that the partner site is no longer interested in using it.
A few days ago I claimed two more C4C articles for one of the AC partner sites (bicycling product reviews), I will be paid $8.50 UFP for each of these articles which may or may not be published on the partners website.
Exclusive vs. Non-exclusive
You can post exclusive or non-exclusive articles to AC. There doesn’t seem to be much difference in the amount of UFP that is offered for exclusive articles. So I only offer my articles as non-exclusive, that way I retain the copy write to the articles and I can publish them to other sites in the future.
Further Information
To view my Content Producer page, go to Lynn Smythe's Profile on Associated Content.
For additional information on Associated Content view their FAQ page.
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