Associated Content Update

I was doing pretty well on Associated Content. At one point I was averaging about $6 or $7 an article and I can write an article in less than a hour, so that’s an okay wage per hour. But I had heard that some people made in the $8 – $12 range. I wanted to make that much too so I did everything I could to improve. Sure enough I did. From August 2006 to February 2008 I brought in 700,000 page views. That period of time is 19 months. So I averaged about 36,000 page views per month.

In March of 2008 and April of 2008 (so far) I have pulled in 200,000 page views. That’s 100,000 page views per month. In that time I’ve had 21 articles featured on Associated Content, three articles on the Most Popular Content section and I had an article featured by IMDB.com. What’s my reward for this? An average offer of $3.80 per article.

I hate those people that think they are too good, “oh my articles are soooo good that I deserve sooo much more money.” But this is ridiculous. It’s bad enough that I’m making less than I should but my offers went down when my performance went up. It makes no sense.

So I’ve decided Associated Content isn’t working anymore. Clearly something has changed and clearly I’m going to make chump change on half of my articles and rejected on the other half. So from now on I’m only going to write one or two time sensitive article per week, submit it for free to try and get some money on the performance bonus. No more writing 5 – 10 articles a day. No more articles about really interesting things like chess boxing and bossaball. No more sports stories. No more writing 10 articles worthy of being featured every week. Just one or two little articles a week and that’s it.

Before I didn’t feature all my Associated Content articles on here because like I said I wrote 5 – 10 articles a day and I don’t think you want promotion for 5 – 10 articles every day. But since I will now only be writing one or two articles a week I figured it wouldn’t be a problem to promote them here when they are published. So here is the first article of the new era.

God Sends Message to Teenagers in Abbotsford; Rock is the Devil’s Music

By the way Associated Content added a picture to this article which usually means they are going to feature it. So even after I “quit” I still get featured. Go figure.

Today I will be spending the day looking for a real job. Tomorrow I’ll be playing Grand Theft Auto IV. Everybody have a nice week!