Place For Writers To Make Pretty Good Money Publishing Their Articles

I was doing some research for a completely unrelated article, and I found a resource I'd stumbled across before but not really taken much notice of. It's aplace where writers can sign up and contribute articles, but they pay you - there are upfront payments ($1 to $20), which are the least exciting part, but there are also performance payments depending on your page views. There is a complete FAQ here - Frequently Asked Questions - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com

To give you an idea of the perfmormance payments (Performance Pay - Associated Content - associatedcontent.com) they pay you $100 a month for an article with 50,000 page views a month if you have a 'clout level' of 10. Now, I really have no idea about how you go about getting a clout level of 10 as I've got my own stuff going on here and I'm too busy to really get into this, but I don't think it would be that hard if you:

* write decent articles
* know about keyword selection and basic seo
* maybe drive a few links to your articles using any of the link packets and some of the 'backlink booster' type things

I believe you can also include links to other sites (inc your own as long as they are related and provide further information). I don't believe they would look too kindly upon poor quality links, or stuffing links in those articles.

And I believe from what I did read that they have strong editorial standards - so you can't just write dribble. But writers, if you're sick of getting internet marketing rates for your articles and you have good keyword selection skills (I'd invest in a good keyword tool like MicroNicheFinder or Market Samuri), here's your chance to piggy back on a PR6 site and get some of your own back :-)

Merry Christmas everyone!
Rebecca