Constant Content, can't create author account and where to sell my articles?

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Hey warriors. I have a couple questions.

Does anyone have an author account at aconstant-content.com? For some reason I've tried multiple times to make an author account but when I try to finish the first page of registration, (before taking the test) the site tells me to verify that both passwords are matching for my account name. They are, I've tried dozens of different passwords and none work. I've tried using a different browser, using a different email, basically anything I can think of. Nothing seems to work.

The reason I'm trying to get an account over there is because I used to have a website that made anywhere between $200-$500 a month on AdSense with many high ranking articles on google for longtail keywords. Me being stupid I let the webhosting expire and lost the domain name but I have a backup of the website cpanel and database with all the images and articles saved.

The articles themselves are all 100% original, written by hand personally and most contain anywhere between 1200-2500 words. They are extremely high quality articles that took me around 5 hours each; from researching the articles, writing them and rewriting them after proofreading, taking care to target a certain keyword, formatting the entire article, finding images that I could use legally and so on. Basically they all took a lot of effort and are written extremely professionally.

The articles themselves range from relationship success advice, fitness success advice, gaming success advice, money making advice and some list based articles for making money online from sites like fiverr, themeforest and teespring. My niche for the website was basically articles written about success in one area or another, making money online, that sort of thing.

How would I go about selling these? Is there something better than Constant Content for selling prewritten articles? My website was extremely well made took me hundreds of hours but since the domain was bought up by someone else, I can't just reupload the site and sell the site itself. I'm also extremely broke at the moment so buying it back from the company that bought it is out of the question. So instead I figure I could sell the articles and make some money off of the thousands of hours of work I put into it.

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Some additional information; the articles are all already formatted since they were on a website. They include outbound links to help with SEO, good use of bold tags, title tags, heading tags, formatted paragraphs and they also include images throughout each article. The images are all either purchased by me, taken by me, or some which require a link back to the original owners website.

Many of the articles will rank first on google with just a little bit of offsite SEO directed to the article. I was ranking first for dozens of longtail keywords most of which were receiving between 100-6000 searches per month.

I have the old wordpress database xml export file and the original cpanel backup that includes the theme, layout, pictures, plugins, etc. I believe with the XML file you could actually easily upload the entire library of articles on your website with one click. So basically, I'm wondering where would be the best place to try and sell these. DigitalPoint seems to be all low quality articles or spun content, because they are selling 1000 word articles for like 4 bucks each.

Thanks for reading this far!
  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    Originally Posted by Unpleasantry View Post

    Hey warriors. I have a couple questions.

    Does anyone have an author account at aconstant-content.com? For some reason I've tried multiple times to make an author account but when I try to finish the first page of registration, (before taking the test) the site tells me to verify that both passwords are matching for my account name. They are, I've tried dozens of different passwords and none work. I've tried using a different browser, using a different email, basically anything I can think of. Nothing seems to work.!
    Why not go back to constant-content and click the "Contact Us" link

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    • Profile picture of the author Unpleasantry
      Originally Posted by agmccall View Post

      Why not go back to constant-content and click the "Contact Us" link

      al
      Hey al, yeah I sent them a couple emails and waiting on a response. I was just hoping some warriors might know of any other sites that might work for selling articles, or someone on here might have had the same problem when creating an account.
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  • Profile picture of the author agmccall
    there are tons of freelance sites Just google "freelance sites". You can also do a WSO and sell your articles as PLR

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  • Profile picture of the author EelKat
    Have you considered HubPages? It's free to join, and you list your articles on your account. You get paid 50% cut of the AdSence revenue and don't have to worry about trying to sell your articles to others. It might be worth looking into until you have enough money to build a site of your own again. With HubPages you keep your rights to your work, and when you get your own site back up, it's a simple matter of deleted each article off HubPages as you upload it to your new site. I used HubPages several years ago and then after getting my own site, just moved my articles off HubPage to my own site.

    Originally Posted by Unpleasantry View Post

    I used to have a website that made anywhere between $200-$500 a month on AdSense with many high ranking articles on google for longtail keywords. Me being stupid I let the webhosting expire and lost the domain name but I have a backup of the website cpanel and database with all the images and articles saved.
    Why don't you just buy a new site? (Rather then trying to buy your old domain back? - It's a common scam for companies to swoop in and buy up expiried domains then try to sell it back to original owner for WAY too much money.) Just start a new site on a new domain. Couln't you put your articles back up on a different url and go back to the AdSense income? In my experience, you make more money with your own site, then you do selling your articles to content sites. It's why I discontinued using such sites and switched just to focusing all on my own site only instead.

    To ensure your registration don't run out again, you can set up monthly reoccurring payments through your paypal account. That way it gets renewed every 30 days even if you forget. SBI does a $30 a month service for people with little start up money. Includes the site and the domain name. Just set it up with a different url then your old site had.

    I used to put my articles on other sites, years ago; but I switched over to my own website (I use Solo Build It/SiteSell aka SBI by Ken Evoy, to host mine, but there are plenty of other web hosts out there, WordPress, HostGator, etc). I have income from AdSence, Zazzle, Amazon, LinkShare, and Share-A-Sale coming in from it now. I don't have to worry about the content/freelance site taking a cut of the income either.


    Originally Posted by Unpleasantry View Post

    because they are selling 1000 word articles for like 4 bucks each.
    $4 each is really NOT good. Online content farms get away with scamming authors into pay like this because so few content writers started out in the print industry. I've been publishing my work since 1978.... looong before internet and content farms existed. Standard industry price is .05c to .20c PER WORD. That means at MINIMUM you should be getting paid $50 for a 1,000 word article and you could easily get $200 from most magazines. Get into a big magazine like PlayBoy, they pay $2,000+ for a 1,000 word article.

    You might really want to get yourself a copy of The Writer's Market (a book, published each year) and look into submitting to actual publishing houses, rather then settling for pennies tossed to you by content farms. (they have an online version for non-fiction article writers here: http://www.writersmarket.com/cms/open/nonfiction )

    And, if you put the articles on your own site, you'll make WAY more then $4 per month, per article. I had one article on my site, one page of my site, that brings in $200 a month, just that one article alone. It couldn't do that if I had sold it for a one time fee of $4, now could it?

    Don't sell yourself short for a quick buck. Look to your long term future. You can get way more then $4 an article from real publishers and long term you could have a monthly income by not selling your articles at all, just putting them on your own site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Unpleasantry
      Originally Posted by EelKat View Post

      $4 each is really NOT good.
      Yeah I know that, that's what I was saying. I am shooting at between $20-$100 for these articles because they are not some spun content or written by some guy in India for 10 cents an hour. I meant that the other articles on digital point are all low quality articles selling for pennies on the dollar, so I'm assuming they are all garbage spun content. A shit-ton of time and effort were put into mine so I don't want to sell them for next to nothing. In that case I'd hang on to them and use them on a site down the road.

      I was figuring there would be a site where I could sell my articles quickly and would be able to get 5k-10k out of them all. Long story short, I am real short on cash and the transmission in my car crapped the bed so I'm basically car less at the moment. I was hoping to find someplace I could sell them all and make enough to pay to have it fixed and have a little cash leftover. I'm aware I could make more money in the long term if I remade a site, I just need a way to make some quick cash and realized I still have these on my PC in a backup. I had totally forgotten about them until the other day when I was trying to come up with something to make a quick couple grand.

      Thanks for the advice with hub pages, maybe I'll just upload them to there for now try to take out a loan or something.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    Are these the same articles you "sold" in another thread from yesterday? Why are they for sale again today?

    Freelance sites would not be open to someone selling previously published articles - at least no sites that I've used. That said, buyers might be interested if it's a good niche and they can rewrite a bit and end up with good content.

    These articles were unique when you wrote them and put them online...how long ago was that? Can you guarantee none of the articles are online now?

    Why wouldn't you get a new domain and build it up again with the same articles and images?
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