AC Experiment

I have been conducting an experiment with Associated Content. I have been a content producer for a few years now and have noticed that lately it has been very difficult to get articles accepted for upfront payment. I am experimenting with different ways to increase my odds of getting approval.

Last week I went through my account and pulled out all the comments from editors that were in the form of advice or tips. I spent all last week following them and still kept getting a "canned message" after each submission that said basically my articles were not different enough from what was already available on the web and that was the reasons for the declines. I published each article so that they would qualify for monthly PV payment (pay for views). I have been doing well with getting lots of page views. I figure if I really increase the number of quality articles I have on AC, my monthly PV payments will increase too.

This week I am only writing assignment articles to see if those get approved or declined. I claimed 4 assignments and only one is upfront payment but very low (just a little over two dollars). Certainly a writer cannot live on such a low offering of pay.

I will post my experiment results here on this blog for anyone interested to read.