Associated Content, a place for freelance writers
This may be the first of the “making money online” series of articles. A few weeks ago I found out about Associated Content, a site that pays freelance writers for their articles. At first I didn’t think about writing an article for them, mainly because I didn’t think it would be published. A few days ago I was reading an article (precisely on Associated Content) and decided to give it a try.
The first thing I did was to gather as much information about AC as I could to get an idea of how the site works. They have a few guidelines for publishing articles, but basically all you need to do is write about something (it could be anything) in minimum 250 words (they recommend to keep the articles between 300 and 500, I recommend you to write at least 400 word per article), in either english or spanish, submit it and wait for the article to be reviewed.
There are two ways of making money with the articles, one is to request an upfront payment and the other is to get just performance payments for your articles. The upfront payment means that you’ll get paid when you publish an article, they don’t pay much, I have just published my first article (recommended reading: Simple Steps to Make Money at ReviewStream.com) and they paid me 2 dollars, not much but it is a 400 word article that I wrote in about 30 minutes. And there are the performance payments too. AC pays you about 1.5 dollars for every thousand views of your articles, that too sounds like a little but it’s really not that bad, specially considering that if you publish an article requesting an upfront payment you’ll get performance payments too, so if your article gets a lot of audience you’ll make a lot of money too.
So, what do you think about Associated Content? It isn’t a way of getting rich one day to another, but it could be a nice way of setting an income stream that will give you some money month after month. If you are good at writing don’t think much about it and just join Associated Content and start making some money there.
