Guess what Associated Content offered me?

Five dollars.

$1.10 ?

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Rob Whisonant

I don't even know what the prize is. But, based on my own experience, how bout $4.45?

it has to be more than expected, so how about 2 millions, and if that's the case the drinks are on you tonight :p

$9.27

I'm going to guess $22 (the highest I've ever gotten there was $17 though).

Oh good guesses, but nobodys even close :p I'll see if anyone else wants to guess then I'll relieve the anticipation :p

.01 would be my guess (not even your 2 cents worth)

haha I guess netmalls was closest. They offered 99 cents!! I didn't know they went so low! I thought 2 and 3 $ was low for 400-500 word articles, but 99 cents???

They said they had a lot of "similar content" there. Guess there's bound to be similar content on every topic with all the articles submitted. And for a while some ppl were even trying to make a living just from AC.

Needless to say I declined. That is like DP wages. I will post it on my blog instead. It's not a bad article, but apparently there are lots of articles on the same topic. Then why were they asking for more articles on that topic?

In my opinion AC is a waste unless you happen to have a trillion articles there that gets tons of performance views.

OK, I'll throw a guess at this, what the heck how about 28c ;O

Scot

Valerie,

Gee you could always move to a country where 99 cents would be a lot of money

Who said article marketing is a bad investment :rolleyes:

At least not for them :p

Mark

I had no idea they had gotten so low! I get a few bucks a month from them from page views on articles that I submitted years ago. I quit writing for them when they started rejecting a third or so of my articles.

But it's how I got started making money online so I'll be thankful to them for that.

Hey Val,

If you want more than $.99, I was just introduced to textbroker.com through Warrior Essence's WSO "Give me 40 hours and 2 Dollars, and I'll Give You Passive Income For Life". He commented above. Textbroker.com pays $.01/word so your 400-500 word article would be $4-$5 in your pocket. If any of you know of another good resource, let's help Val out. Thank you.

That is just...incredible! I remember about 3 years ago I would submit an article now and then to AC. The least they offered me for an article was $8 and the most was $20. I know that if I submitted one to them today I'd get an offer just like you did.

I think they justify the low offers now by saying that they pay Adsense residuals according to how many views your articles get each month, but from what I hear it's still not worth it.

I have encounter the same offer and that is my last post at AC. I have paid someone for $3 for a unique and high quality articles but get $0.99 offer lol, since then I live AC and don't consider them as a source of income anymore.

Funny, I was thinking of making a living out of AC.
Alternatives, anyone?

Will check them out later :-)

I think HubPages also pay, I'm not sure about the info though, and there's always elance and getafreelancer for writing jobs.

Thanks,

Omar

dang thanks for the warn

There is an article directory that lets you submit your own articles (not respun PLR or as is PLR) and they let you put your own price. You not only put your own price but say you put $0.99 you can allow it to be sold up to 1,000 times. Or you could say $10 for 1 person, or $50 for 1 person or anything in between.

All you do is submit your own writing.

Pays 1 a month via PayPal

wow. I have always considered just trying AC to see what it is all about but now I think I won't bother :-P

AC has been going down hill a lot recently purely cos of the black hatters making it worse for us all.

Ahhhh, that really stinks. It seems that they are sinking lower, and lower, and lower. Pretty soon they'll be offering 10 cents per article and wondering where all the people submitting articles went :-P

Did you know the 99 cents menu in Panama is 69 cents at McDonalds? You could get any of a few items! :-)

The only good thing I can say about AC is that from the few hundred articles I submitted 2-3 yrs ago I've been getting monthly bonus checks for around $100 for about 2 years running now. Always nice to get a bump in your paypal acct every month for not doing anything.

Thankfully, at that time they were also paying some decent prices for content. Many of my articles were netting $10-$15 a piece. Today, I guess those same articles would pay out $.99. AC has really changed.

Well, this is disheartening. I spent most of yesterday afternoon looking through the AC site, as well as Constant-Content, and some Googling for reviews, etc. I thought it would be an excellent way to generate a little extra cash and residual income.
It appeared AC had more potential, but I guess not. I did think it strange they wanted so many articles that were locale specific, which would limit your hits. In the travel section all you needed to do was re-write a brochure for local attractions.
But, I still see plenty of AC articles in the top 10 on Google.
I still might submit an article or two, just to see what I get offered. After all, I don't have to accept it. What was the topic/category you submitted in?
Thanks for the information, Valerie!

Ha! My first three articles that I submitted there way back when the site was new earned me $10.44, $11.25, and $9.50! $0.99? That's a joke and a half. Then again, we all submit to ezine articles for nothing, don't we?

Yeah the people who submitted when they first started were the lucky ones. Now it's over saturated I guess. I know some people wanted to submit like 100 articles a month-now nearly every topic is saturated. I never expected an offer so low though. Pretty soon nobody will be submitting there.

I signed up for AC before but haven't submitted anything yet. Writing for those rates is a waste. I can get a much higher rate elsewhere.

Those who have submitted articles much, much earlier benefited the decent rates. Sorry for those who came in last.

Textbroker.com - Decent writers end up making 1.5 cents per word and up

DemandStudios.com - You apply, and when you're accepted you make anywhere from $5 for short, easy little articles to $15 for 'how to' articles around 400 words in length. When you take an article to write and write it correctly, you 'will' get paid.

Constant-content.com - You write an article, submit it, set a price and wait for someone to buy it. No guarantees your articles will sell, but there are ways to optimize your articles to make them as appealing as possible.

Dailyarticle.com - Same as constant-content. Write, submit, set a price, hope they sell. DailyArticle is great about payment.

Helium.com - You check out requests for articles and what clients are willing to pay, then write and submit. Once again, no guarantees the requester will choose to buy it.

Alton it was in my signature.

Ghostwriters International Article Directory

You submit your articles, place your own price and how many copies you want to sell, and then wait to sell it.

Once sold payments are made on the 2nd of the month by paypal, and because it is a small site if anyone can't accept paypal we will do the payment the best way for the person.

It is fairly new, and part of our ghostwriters international group.

This is turning out to be a really great thread with lots of good advice. Nice one valerie.

I had no idea there were resources for buying articles at such competative rates.

I have a question. I wrote a few not bad (if I don't say so myself) articles that I have used only in some blogs that I don't really do much to. Can you submit articles for sale that you have used yourself?

In fact, what about articles that you have submitted to other article directories, can you submit these for sale on these websites such as constant content.

The reason why I ask is because I have wrote so many articles that I have used on dud websites and submitted to A. directories but didn't end up doing much marketing for them. However, I reckon others could make something of them if they were to use them on a site/blog.

Maybe I'm pushing my luck here

Funny, this thread started at .99 cents. Now, it's gold.
I better subscribe eh.

What an insult.But AC will be the one to suffer in the long run-it's just a matter of time!

Lots of good info here. I've never heard of lots of the sites mentioned here like textbroker. I checked it out and it looks pretty new. I signed up and you have to submit a sample article to be rated and approved. I submitted a sample article and was rated and approved the same day. I was happy with my rating. You are allowed to write on topics in your rating or less, but not over. But I don't like a lot of the topics on there and there's not that many to choose from.

But if you want to BUY content it looks like the perfect place for content buyers. You submit what you want and select the rating you want it listed under 2,3, or 4. 2 is the cheapest at 70 cents a word and 4 is most expensive. Textbroker rates you so the better writers get a higher rating level.

Then when someone submits an article you can either accept it or not. No risk.

Somewhat risky for writers though, because there is no guarantee your article will be accepted so it's possible you wrote for nothing. But same with AC.

I had written an article a while back that they gave me 4 bucks for... but then I submitted something else and they offered $1.50. Either the article asucked (to them) or they're broke as hell... I guess the recession has hit them too

@Tina- I see you're experienced with textbroker. I just got approved so I'm a complete newbie and will see how it works.

@Droopy- I think I got around $6 for the 1st one I submitted. That was like 2 yrs ago and I only submitted a handful. But I never heard of 99 cent articles LOL Reminds me of DP-I want perfect articles for .50 LOL

I don't even know how AC makes money. Through adsense? Other ads? Anyone know?

I'm not sure why they keep lowering the article price, before this I can make minimum $20 perday from AC. Since last year the price decrease gradually and I'm not sure what AC planning for their future.

So, I had just signed up with AC the day before this thread appeared, but hadn't submitted any articles. I thought, out of curiosity, I'd submit a new article I just wrote for a plr pak I was going to do as a WSO. I submitted it on Sunday.
I just received AC's offer of $3! I don't know if it's the niche or if AC got wind of this thread! LOL
I think I'll accept and see where it goes. I also signed up with Demand Studios-thanks to this thread, and just got accepted. Still filling out the 'stuff' they make you do before you can get assignments. It looks pretty good, though.
Thanks for doing this thread, Valerie! It came at the right time.

So, I had just signed up with AC the day before this thread appeared, but hadn't submitted any articles. I thought, out of curiosity, I'd submit a new article I just wrote for a plr pak I was going to do as a WSO. I submitted it on Sunday.
I just received AC's offer of $3! I don't know if it's the niche or if AC got wind of this thread! LOL
I think I'll accept and see where it goes. I also signed up with Demand Studios-thanks to this thread, and just got accepted. Still filling out the 'stuff' they make you do before you can get assignments. It looks pretty good, though.
Thanks for doing this thread, Valerie! It came at the right time.

But if you submit an article to AC, won't it show up in the SE's, as well as give you link juice and page views? So isn't it *in theory* better than eza?

Wouldn't it be really simple to hire someone from a poor country with decent+ english fulltime as a content writer, and submit the articles to AC with links to any of your salespage/blog/niche websites? Backlinks and direct payment?

Btw, I want $1 from WF for what I just wrote =P

Typical AC. What can you do? But that's weird. The article prices are actually rising. So I don't see the logic.

Call me a lover of instant gratification, but I'd much rather write an article and sell it myself for a one-time payment on popular forums, than submit to AC and have to wait 3 days for a measly payment.

LOL...waw 99cent....hope you try textbroker.com

I remember the good ol' days when I could make a whole $11 per article from AC <sigh>.
If you're looking for steady writing income, Demand Studios is an excellent option. They pay a decent flat rate per article, and have several different assignments available most of the time.

Yeah AC is a joke. I ordered an WSO ebook a while ago for $40 which basically said to rewrite articles and submit to AC. So I re-wrote one article and got $1 from AC! Then just recently I wrote an article and submitted it to ezine articles with a link to an affiliate offer and so far I've made $40 from that one article! (2 sales at $20).

A site called MPAM used to pay $5 for articles and now they don't pay anything anymore.

Pretty soon, it might end up that AC will pay zero cents also.

You did better than I did, Val - I gave them some pretty unique content and not only did they offer some lowball figure(can't remember what) but told me I could increase the figure by marketing the article on their site! Market it? I sent back a whole page of HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - and never looked back at them.