I neglected my AC account for very long time.

How much is the min payout? Good to know that you got your first payment.

Hi Zed, I guess the $1.50 click from the Adsense in Hubpages beat the first payment from AC.
The thing in AC is that you can create more page views by making comments to other articles in AC. Some writers get the bulk of earnings from internal readers. You can see from the number of comments they have for an article. Some writers have an average of 30 comments for an article.
My readers come mainly from search engines, thanks to the effort in seo.

SEO definitely plays a big part. So does commenting on others work. Usually, you can find writers that do page view for page view. I always try to do it. Sometimes, you don't always get the emails telling you about new comments so you can respond. For the most part, it's accurate though. I don't really have an internal following either, most of my readers are from outside sources. Don't understand that considering the amount of Favorites I have. LOL

Nishdan, the minimum payout for page views is $1.50 for every 1000 page views you have. Roughly like that. I don't know how they count, but my first payment from AC was $2++ ... I don't know how they count. Now, my page views are nearing to a thousand again, so I might be able to get a 2nd payout. I think AC rocks totally because it's like amazing; how you can just submit say 10 articles and let them earn residual.

Scheng, you are right.. I do have some awesome friends there, and we kind of comment to one another. I am trying my very best to be active there, and lately, I have been concentrating on AC more. I'm going to have to let Hubpages slide for awhile, because I have my blogs on Adsense for that.. so I shall concentrate on AC for a bit..

Thanks, mommaj.. that's true, actually. I find myself looking through manually for comments because there have been some which I don't receive, but mostly they are there, like you said. So far, I've been having internal following and some, which I believe from outside.

You are right, ladies. It all boils down to the right keywords and the right kind of articles to write. But sometimes, I just write from the heart, not caring for the keywords so much, LOL..

Page views computation is based on the loading of the advertisements. All the advertisements must load, then it will be counted as one page view.
If you have 2 pages in an article, and a reader reads the 2 pages, add a comment, you gain three page views. That is provided they dont have ad blocking software. That is why commenting is important. It's an extra page view, and most people wait for ad to load to see how the comment turns out.
Many writers aim to write a 2 to 3 pages articles, so that they can get more page views. Using short paragraphs can help to achieve that.
During the time when AC has ad loading problems, many writers find the page views go down 20% to 30%.
There is one writer, Donald something, said that his performance bonus went down by $500, from $2,000 to $1,500. He's good at writing news, and can upload ten articles per day.
Another thing to consider is that AC has indexing problem with search engines. Many articles are not even indexed.
It is better to display the articles in AC to other writing sites, such as Bukisa. Bukisa works on the same principle, at $3.45 per 1,000 page views. commenting is adding extra page views as well. Bukisa has one great point, it shows the traffic source and the keywords the reader uses to locate the article. However, Bukisa does not divide a long article into many different pages.

Valuable information as always. Thanks for the Bukisa recommend.. I'll try to juggle with AC first.. and see how. Actually, it feels like home too there, just like mylot, and to get to a new site and interact with others again, I feel a bit too old for that, LOL. But you have given some great tips there. No wonder I see many people having 3-4 pages of articles, but they can really write and they know their stuff truly well.

The Donald writer surely has lots of page views.. that's really awesome dollars to be getting just from the p.v..

Thanks so much for the Br... appreciate it, really.

Thanks for a detailed response. I do post my Helium articles at AC, but not in Bukisa. I will give that a try now.Even you gave me a tip on how to draw readers and thanks for that.

I ma not eligible for upfront payments as I am not a U.S resident now.So I will have to be satisfied with pageviews. I have posted 6 articles and you can see my articles by clicking on AC link in my Mylot profile.

Oh, did not realize it was only for U.S.. The performance payments start to add up, especially if you connect your account with twitter and/or facebook. I will take a look at your articles. I have been writing for them since 2007, though not as much as I use to...Good luck to you.

I do write at helium. I do not write often these days. You can view my helium page through Mylot profile page.

OMG, you weren't kidding! How long did it take you to write all of those articles?

Three long years! It wasn't an easy task. Just took time to write when I was looking after my 2 sons.

Many small articles were not leapfroged and hence was deleted. So my writing score is down too. I guess that would be another 200 articles.

Wow, that is pretty prolific! I would like to get to 300 articles. I am going in slow motion at this time though.