Frustrated with Associated Content...back to Helium

Hey anythng. As you know I am always big on AC because I can't seem to get the hang of Helium to make money. LOL I'm surprised you can at least do one one month and the next the next month.

I know how you feel with the upfront thingy, although I'm not eligible for it, but sometimes writing sites can make me go crazy. And so I stop for 2-3 days and come back to it whenever I have writings to upload. I've never been active on Helium anymore, don't know why, but the reasons must be the star thingy, although I did cash out once only.. So, back to the yo-yo thing, yeah, I do feel like that too. Although my yo-yo is invariably from the lot to AC and then to blog writings. The lot is of course, a relax portal. But for those writing sites, oh yeah, and I am also on Hubpages, sometimes I feel like I just wanna stick to one site. But the boredom makes me come back to the other each time. Maybe it's just me...

Right now I am just getting caught up with both of them but I prefere AC because they allow my poems with the curse words where as Helium will not. Keep writing and hey at least you can yo-yo between them and here. Ainge

I like Helium, even though I have not put a new article up in a while...I still manage to make payout, by just rating. I think that there is something to that, especially when you are in a dry spell.

There are definitely tricks to making them work for you. For the moment helium is what works best for me. At AC you are going to need evergreen articles that can generate page views year round and you're going to have to think about stuff that people are searching every day. Forget about upfront payments and concentrate on the type of content. If you want to be paid upfront don't submit anything important to you to any site paying you less than $10 for 400-500 words.

wow. why? so do you think whats the best? AC or helium? iam member of bukisa, helium and shvoong. but only in shvoong, iam active.

I know what you mean. I have had people harassing me on AC, and so I just decided to leave. I still have my work on that site, and I still collect some money on it from articles that I have published before, but I am not posting anything on there right now. I had to take down one of my article because people were getting angry about it. It was really frustrating. I love to write, but these people are making it so hard for anyone to write because they are so critical of every little last thing.

I go back and forth between triond and reviewstream. I stopped doing helium a while ago, I don't know why. Maybe I'll wander over there.

I go back and forth between AC, Helium, Bukisa, Squidoo, Epinions, and Textbroker like crazy. Then again I'm one of those people who can't do the same thing all the time.

just joined AC website and feel it's so complicated. I feel the website is not good. i wonder why so many people are talking about it. i felt i made a mistake. anyway i will fixed on helium then just cross posted my articles to ac. if it works then it's good. i will get paid. if it's not,then i will give up as a bad job. it's really tirering to deal with them. I completely understand your feeling and agree with you.

I see what you mean about yo-yoing back and forth through out the sites. I have spent more of my time on helium, because I see that I make more money on there then I do AC. AC in a way just kind of bored me, I guess from me not earning so much on there and I have posted articles up for upfront payments but they just get rejected they only accepted one of my articles and thats it. But I have been making good money over at helium, better than AC. I haven't reached payout yet from that site but I think the main reason I just need to write more, but I'm planning on doing that now, and watching my earnings and stars go up. So I think that I will be sticking with Helium for awhile, and maybe post my articles from Helium to AC. I guess my other reason for writing to Helium is the fact that there are already articles provided for you, or if you have an article idea, it'll get accepted. I kind of don't like the fact that on AC you have to come up with an article yourself. So I guess that another reason why I don't stick on there alot.

hello, if there's one thing that i enjoy writing in a site so much is this site mylot.i tried to be active in associated content but they didn't accept my article and besides i was a lot of articles there discouraging people to join mylot, which gave me the reason not to join there site. i don't even know helium, am not that a professional write.

I write for both of these sites and I agree that it can be frustrating at times. I try and keep a monthly goal for each site. Although my articles don't always get accepted by Associated Content, I still get good offers from the articles that they do accept. My problem with Helium is that your writing percentage can fluctuate a lot, which can affect your stars. At least you can make $1 for each empty title you write for. I think that as long as you have patience and persist to write, both of these sites will be beneficial to you. If not, there are plenty of sites you can write for. Check out Textbroker or Constant Content. Otherwise, you can always stick with MyLot :)