February 4, 2012

Associated Content and Constant Content Experiment

I’ve decided to do a little experiment with Associated Content and Constant Content; namely, I am going to see how much money can be made using these two writers resources. Now, because of my busy schedule I cannot commit to this full-time, though I will work to publish a minimum of 5 articles per week until the end of 2007.

I’ve read in the Associated Content forums that there are freelance writers who submit content to Associated Content full time, though I’m not sure how that could lead to a full-time income. Personally, I’ve used Associated Content in the past under a pen name, though I only ended up submitting about 15 articles in total to the tune of $50 or so dollars in up-front payment and a few dollars thus far from their performance bonus.

I guess I’m not too worried about Associated Content declining my work for up-front payment; of the 15 that I submitted to AC, only one got held up due to not using a “discoverable” page title; I fixed that promptly and thus had a 100% acceptance rate for up-front payments. Other writers complain (in the forums) about not getting their articles accepted at the Associated Content website. . . but I don’t see where the problem is. Maybe I write better. . . maybe I choose better topics. . . maybe I got lucky – I don’t really know.

As far as Constant Content; I’ve never submitted an article to them until this morning. . . I’ve read in several different writers forums that the editors over there are a bit brash when rejecting articles. While I am a website content writer by profession, I only have a high-school education; we’ll see how that goes soon enough.

The Experiment

The experiment is simply to see how much money I can make over the next 5ish weeks using Associated Content and Constant Content, submitting a minimum of 5 articles per week to each website.

I will be creating an article and submitting it to Associated Content first, then I will submit it to Constant Content with Usage Rights. On this blog I will keep a “diary” of sorts where I will share the articles submitted, when or if they were approved and any money earned as a result of this experiment.

This experiment will officially start on Monday, November 26th, though I have 2 articles in to Associated Content and 1 submitted to Constant Content as of this writing. The end-date will be December 31, 2007. Not all articles submitted to Associated Content will be submitted to Constant Content, so there may be discrepancies between the numbers.

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9 Responses to “Associated Content and Constant Content Experiment”

  1. Luke Beatty (1 comments.) on November 24th, 2007

    Depends what you consider a “full-time income”- but here at Associated Content, Content Producers make hundreds or thousands per month.
    -Luke
    Founder and President, Associated Content

  2. Rob on November 24th, 2007

    I’m quite impressed that my post garnered the attention from a major online company the same day it was posted. . . especially since my blog here has limited reach. Pretty impressive, Associated Content must mine the search engines, maybe reputation management?

    In any case, thanks for the response. I guess that I should expand a bit on what I am doing & how I plan to asses whether freelance writers can make a full-time income using these two websites.

    In reality, yes; I believe that even writing for Associated Content alone can give you a “livable” income, or at least a nice staple to supplement it… this experiment is just to show others that it can, indeed, be done.

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  4. question about associated content on September 23rd, 2008

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  5. dylangle3 from JTag Helpdesk(new comment) on August 15th, 2009

    Interesting!
    I wish I can do that experiment too, to prove it myself.
    I like experiment too. :)

    thanks for sharing it.

  6. Don Richards(new comment) on March 27th, 2010

    I’m following your eval.
    donz

  7. Jill St. James(new comment) on June 7th, 2010

    I haven’t been able to log into Associated Content for three weeks. The help desk has sent two emails that were totally non-responsive. The first one reminded me to cut and paste the new log-in address. It states that on the original email. Duh, like I didn’t try that more than once. A week later I receive an email asking me for a copy of the link. The email trail below that comment included the link. I responded politely, “Look below,” and copied the link yet again.

    I think AC is blocking some people who don’t have much content to avoid paying any advertising revenue the articles generate. It’s certainly not much for one person, but it adds up for the company when you consider thousands of articles. I called the company for some assistance when my first email was never answered and was told help is ONLY provided through email. Good luck with that. I think there needs to be some federal government investigation into these writing mill sites to regulate the illegal business practices. A publisher can’t sign a contract to pay royalties on a book and then block a bank account payment. Added insult is the fact that the email requests are ignored!

  8. Hank(new comment) on December 25th, 2010

    Interesting, I’ve had some success with upfront payments but I usually see more money from the ones that I just submit for performance payments. My performance payments has gone from 11 to 50 dollars in the past two months so I’m quite happy with that and excited about the growth in passive income I experience everyday. I wrote about my building of Associated Content traffic and how I finally figured things out here if you’re interested: http://hubpages.com/hub/how-to-make-money-on-associated-content-a-guide-to-increase-your-earnings

  9. Charlie(new comment) on July 6th, 2011

    It used to be possible to make good money on Associated Content. Not anymore.

    The website is a mess. Page views are non existant since the Google algorithm change and there are so many glitches their IT department must be run by idiots. You should read their forums. Nothing but complaints about how everthing is broken.

    I stopped writing for them in February after several years of submitting consistently. Many of their top writers have also stopped submitting there.

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