Dec 21 2008
Will I Write for Associated Content?
After writing a lot about Triond, my first love, I am inspired to write more about other writing sites that are worth writing for. Associated Content is one of the legitimate sites around that many know of.
I have not written many articles at Associated Content. I have about 5 articles or maybe less. Why have I not been inspired to write more for them? Hmm… There are a couple of reasons.
1) No upfront payment
I’m not a US resident and as such, I am not eligible for their upfront payment for each article I submit. That is truly sad I feel, because Associated Content has dual payment schemes. If you are from the US, you get upfront payment as well as performance payment from pageviews as well. That is fantastic indeed! But for me, it would mean that earnings are still going to be pretty slow, similar to Triond.
2) Approval time
They are taking a long time to review my articles. Maybe this could be due to the hundreds and thousands of articles submitted to them on a daily basis. I wish they could provide a better service in this area. Sometimes it took more than a week to know whether my article has been approved. If I had submitted them at Triond, it would have generated some money there already. Maybe that is why I always revert to Triond instead of AC. Habits die hard!
3) Rejection
I was faced with a couple of rejections at AC. One of the reasons is that there is duplicate content, without my byline. Even though I explained that I’m that same person in the other site, it was not accepted. Writing this makes me wonder whether there is a way to overcome this problem. I’m going to try something and let you know how it all turns out.
For US residents, this is a site you must try if you are keen to make some money from your writing. For others, it may not be entirely worthwhile, depending on your goals.
Associated Content used to take longer to approve articles, so a week is an improvement. I think you can contact the Content Managers in the forum. Tell them what you are getting as a rejection reason. I had to contact them because they claimed I was plagairizing, but I wasn’t because I don’t copy other people’s work, and they took care of it.
Sierra
Review time is highly variable. At any holiday period, especially xmas, it is going to be slow–sometimes more than a week. As for the rejection, they have no way of ensuring that you are the same person who wrote the original article. I just had one rejected because i forgot that I also had it up on one of my blogs, under a different user name. Even before this happened, I knew that multiple user names are a potential problem for writers. I’m in the process now of consolidating everything I write under one name so that if I want to have it republished anywhere, there’s no question of authorship.