AC drives me nuts!! What the heck?

Shengs right. We are both rejects of constant content. LOL If AC is rejecting you for spelling and grammar you have to make sure you correct it before ever sending the article to constant content. Constant content will boot you out without thinking twice. They are a lot more strict than AC.

I haven't done much with constant content as of yet but am working on figuring out that site. Thanks for the great info. I really think that AC is not doing justice to the writers who take the time to post articles there. It can be very annoying but I guess that how some sites are. I prefer Helium the best anyway so it's no big loss if I don't do anything at all with AC. Why take the time to write it if they are going to boot so many out. Making mistakes happen, even when you proof read it three times, things sometimes don't get caught. If they are editor and a spelling is wrong, why wouldn't they simply change it to the correct spelling. It doesn't seem a major deal to me. Associated will probably lose me within a few months because I don't have that much time to waste on them. I will keep in mind about the keyword density. I try to remember it but sometimes I guess I just don't get enough in there. It's hard because you have to put enough without putting too much. I don't care much for the forum either in AC. I guess I am totally spoiled by Helium because everyone is helpful. I asked a question at AC and got slammed with smart alec comments. It's a complete turn off to me.

Hi ddhawkins, now I understand the situation better. Someone had complained in the forum about this problem. The article was rejected for the same reason that not being searchable subject, and would not attract readers from search engine. That writer posted as Display only article, and got a lot of page views. That's why the discussion thread became very long! Apparently a lot of writers faced the same problem. Hope AC got rid of that stupid editor. I really question the ability of the editor to understand SEO.

When you are writing for a living I know how frustrating AC can be. Right now they are going through a lot of changes. Don't let scheng fool you. I am almost positive she is one of them. Scheng I am just kidding. Scheng can give you a lot of good help when you need it. Actually, AC isn't bad. I have been there for a little over a year. They are really getting strict with articles. You need to do concise spelling and grammar checks. The editors keep changing. If they don't think your articles differ enough from what is already on there they will reject them for upfront payment or pay you an extremely small amount. Since you said you just started you should be fine in that department though. They usually get really bad when it comes to people who have been there longer than a year. That's great you can do that for a living. I was hoping to but I just can't. Congrats to you!

With Helium, you should make sure that you do several things. First of all, add more and more work. You have to rate because you can't earn anything unless you have one rating star. The more articles you add, the more you earn. Once you have a writing star, you will be able to get upfront payments for articles in eligible channels. It's one of the best sites, my personal favorite. Just write quality aritlces that will rank high among the raters. Keep it interesting and of good quality and you should do well there. Keep in mind that if you posted to AC and made the article exclusive, you won't be able to post it into Helium. I always post my AC articles as non-exclusive so that I can make more overall money by postiung them elsewhere.

Thank-you. I hope so too. Success.

I agree to a point Susie. I just recently started doing that because I don't see the point of going through the entire process again. That is just me though. I am definitely not suggesting that others do it that way. Money is money, I just hate it when I waste my time doing the work to upload it. Just getting frustrated I guess :-)

I make, by far more with Helium than I can make with AC. I don't bother with too many but thought that AC would be great but I am not seeing that at all. Common is one thing, but I think that there should be a line drawn. Common or not, you can still make a great deal of money off of those articles. I may not be the best writer in the world, but I do make every attempt to make it mine when I do write and try to make it as good as possible. I think you are selling writers short simply because they don't care for AC's proceedures.

You probably haven't been with AC nearly as long as I have, but their procedures do seem to make sense for the most part. I putting an article up with no payment for one they said was too common. It didn't get any views. Sometimes I do get 20,000 views for an article they only pay $4 for. But on average I get $8 an article. That average is going down now that they've added the performance payments. But I would still say it is pretty good. Now honestly the last time I looked at Helium was over a year ago and it was only performance payments. If they've changed and have upfront payments now too, maybe that's better. But for performance payments only to me that seems like you'd have to write more quantity than quality. And I'm more about quality personally, but I'm not trying to say I'm a great writer. The really great writers are writing for a whole lot more money than this. If you don't like AC, no one is forcing you to post there. I'm just posting to say that I've had a great experience with them and I don't have the problem of them turning down my articles generally because I have figured out what they like. That said, I also do not write as much as you so I can really focus on only writing content that will do well. I have 2 other jobs plus I go to school full time, so I really don't write articles that often. But it is a nice way to make some spending money so that I can buy unnecessary but fun items like water shoes. My regular jobs are just so that I can afford food, car payment, and health insurance. And when I feel like writing it is nice to get some money out of it as well.

Helium does pay upfront payments now. That is one of the things that I like about it. You do seem to have a problem putting others down though. Not everyone is perfect and sorry that I don't live up to your standards. Yes, I write a lot of articles. I do it because I enjoy doing it and because it's a good way to make money. I never said anyone was forcing me. This is one of the problems that I have with th site. I did get some good answers from some others. You know, helpful people that understood where I was coming from. I ask for help and I get answers like yours in the AC forum but I don't get that at Helium. I am not trying to knock AC. I am trying to figure out what they want. You may have figured it out but not everyone has. You didn't offer one good piece of advice. You simply put me down. Nice going!!

I totally understand your need to vent. There are times when I get frustrated too with the writing sites, but I am still glad they are there putting money in our pockets. It's hard to keep the big picture in mind when you have a small setback (like having your articles rejected for no apparent reason). Hang in there.

Yeah, I have been rolling with the punches. I post pretty much everything to Helium but I try associated first. That way I can make upfronts on both, possibly if AC accepts it :-) I just got aggravated and needed to vent I guess. Thanks for your input! Helium will always be my favorite I guess.

Okay, I'm just going to check to be sure, but if AC rejects your article you are then free to post it elsewhere even if you had submitted it as exclusive rights. Right. I mean you offered them the deal, they rejected it you can try again elsewhere. Am I correct here or did I totally just assume something that is not true in the writing community?

You are correct. If they reject it, then you can post it elsewhere. Anything that is put on a site that you don't give exclusive rights to is yours. You can post it anywhere, as long as you haven't given exclusive rights to anyone.