Anyone 18 years of age or older can join and submit articles on just about any topic of interest. If the article is well written, the writer may be paid upfront and receive approximately $1.50 to $2 per 1000 page views depending on their “clout” (i.e. AC writer ranking). Associated Content’s upfront payment to the writer may range from about $1 to $15 depending on the article quality and the writer’s clout level.
Register here: http://www.associatedcontent.com/AC provides a great opportunity for someone who wants to gain some writing experience but the pay is minimal in comparison to a freelance writing position that pays on a per word basis. That is, if you can write well, you can easily make more money writing for an actual website rather than the one to fifteen-dollar upfront payment plus the maximum $2/1000 page views that AC pays most well established “contributors”. As an example, let’s say you are paid $0.05 per word for each article that you write for a small niche website.
At that rate, a single 1000-word article would therefore earn you $50 upfront. If you wrote just one article per day, you’d earn about $1500 per month in steady, dependable income. In comparison to similar article directories and publishing platform sites like AC, you do not receive payment on a per word basis and therefore it wouldn’t be in your best interest to publish articles longer than the minimum required length. If you had instead wrote those 30 articles/month for AC you would have only earned $150 upfront and $0.002 per page view ($2/1000 page views). In order to make the same amount of money you would earning $0.05 per word, you’d have to attain 675,000 total page views for that month on AC. Now that number of page views is not entirely impossible but it’s not very realistic either.
Let’s say that instead of the 675,000, you actually achieve an average of 1000 page views per month for each article (30,000 total page views); a difficult task but it is possible. In that case you would earn about $60 in revenue from monthly page views and a whopping total of $210 ($150 + $60) for the month. That’s a far cry from the $1500 you could generated writing for a decent website that sets your monthly pay based on the length of the articles you publish.
Let’s take a closer look at some actual data to get a feel for what you can plausibly earn writing for sites like Associate Content. Since AC displays the writer’s total page views on their personal profile, it’s easy to estimate the potential earnings for a writer. Last month I randomly selected two writers and logged the page views that were displayed on their Associate Content contributor profile.
Yesterday I logged the same data to calculate the number of page views they had generated for that time frame. In the case studies listed below you’ll find the actual number of page views per writer and some estimates for month earnings. I’ve kept the writer’s names and links to their profiles private as there is no need to divulge such information. If you question my results, feel free to randomly select writers from AC, gather similar data for yourself, and then compare your results with mine.
