Experiment: Have you ever tried doubling your PVs?

more money, please! - Doesn't everyone want to earn more??
United States
December 10, 2009 7:18am CST
I currently earn about $8 to $10 on page views each month on Associated Content. I am going to try to TRIPLE that amount next payout. How? I am writing more articles, first of all, and trying to better utilize SEO techniques. Also, I have been writing about current events and performing well with page views. I hope to make at least $25 in page views next pay out. Have you ever made an effort to double or triple your PV income on Associated Content? If so, what did you do to raise the PVs, and how successful were you? Thanks for sharing, and please wish me luck!
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9 responses
@mommaj (23112)
• United States
10 Dec 09
Hi Bethany! I am sure you will be able to reach your goal. The best way to raise your page views is SEO and current entertainment event. A good person to read to see what brings in page views is Angel Vee. For the life of me I would love to be able to do what she is doing in page views. LOL Keep working on it and you can get there. Don't forget evergreen articles. I am being happily surprised by mine.
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• United States
10 Dec 09
Great tips, thanks. I saw some of your other tips regarding evergreen articles such as holidays and have written a few of those and plan on writing more. Thanks again! Best wishes.
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@mommaj (23112)
• United States
10 Dec 09
Oh, good. I hope that helps. I am getting a lot of traffic from last year's Christmas articles. I am glad something is giving me page views because I haven't had time to write many articles recently. AH, the holidays.
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@Downwindz (2537)
• Netherlands
11 Dec 09
Hello Mommaj Yet again you give some quality information that can be used on SC and catching PV's. I will try to look up Angel Vee. And im also happy to hear that the articles from last year is yet racking in PV's, so im optimistic for the following year :P Since i have a few articles related to Christmas...
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@kykidd (6812)
• United States
10 Dec 09
A couple of months ago, I decided to start writing more articles on eHow and try to increase my search engine optimization. I usually write about travel, so I hadn't really thought about writing about current events. However, I have been placing links to my eHow articles on my blog. In addition, I started another blog on a travel site. Plus, I put my links on Twitter and Facebook. It seemed like with the additional articles and the links to them, I am earning about double what I was before. I'm now at about $20 a month. I think you have a good point of writing about current events. Perhaps, I could write on my blog about the current events in the cities that I am writing about in the articles that my blog links to. Thanks for sharing and thanks for the ideas. Have a wonderful day!
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• United States
16 Dec 09
I'd be curious to know more about your travel blog. Can you share with us what travel site you are linked to? I have been thinking about starting a travel blog (I have one on book reviews now) because I have so many travel articles. I can use Blogger, but it makes sense to be linked with other travel information instead of in the middle of a mishmash of different blogs with different topics. Thanks for any information you can provide!
• United States
10 Dec 09
Thanks for sharing your progress and your tips. I have been trying to promote on Twitter and FaceBook as well but don't think I am good at that... LOL I don't know. I am sure every little bit helps for me, though. I have thought about starting a blog but am not sure WHERE to start...
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@DFrodeo06 (1325)
• United States
10 Dec 09
i make about $10 a month pn PV too. i am curretnly trying to raise that too but im not quite as ambisous as you lol. with family in and out all month and my husband deploying soon and expecting baby #2 my goal is $15 amonth by feb payout. i am doing the same as you mostly writing mroe article and trying to get the word out on my articles
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• United States
11 Dec 09
Sounds good, what is your name there? I will check some of yours out. Mine is Bethany Marsh.
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@AnythngArt (3302)
• United States
16 Dec 09
I hope that you make great progress and that you come back and share it with us...what worked, how you are doing in that regard. I plan to work on increasing my PVs and articles, but I am waiting till the New Year to begin with that. I'll be lucky to get much of anything posted this month with all the Christmas activities. I think one key is the social networking sites and linking your articles. Good luck, you are very ambitious and I wish you every success with this!
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• United States
27 Dec 09
Look forward to seeing your results. I wonder if payments just naturally go up each month (for me) or if there are ups and downs with the type of articles I write. I did do some season articles for December but far less than most people. Really, I mostly wrote the type of article I usually do this month supplemented by an occasional holiday article.
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• United States
27 Dec 09
Bethany: Are we following each other on AC? I can help give you some page views. I haven't been on much over the holidays, but come January I should be back to my old habits of reading and writing. My name on AC is Christine Zibas.
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• United States
27 Dec 09
Thanks. I will report back next payout (which should be the first or second week of January) and let you know the results and if I am making any progress. : )
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• India
11 Dec 09
i am wishing u all the best for tat,can u please tell me the details of how that can be done
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• United States
11 Dec 09
Sure, just check out AssociatedContent.com and you can find all the info you need there. If you have questions, send me a private message or ask it in this forum and I am sure you will get plenty of help.
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• United States
24 Dec 09
I have just recently started writing for Associated Content. I have gone for the upfront payments so far and have not given much thought to the PV's. I was wondering if you were getting upfront payments for current news articles. I am interested in writing content that earns money upfront and in the long run. I am a beginner so any information you can supply I would greatly appreciate.
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• United States
27 Dec 09
I submit most of my articles for up-front payments. I don't know if news articles qualify because I rarely write them. I don't think slideshows and poetry and a few other things qualify for up-front, although they do generate performance pay. I have earned several hundred dollars just from up-front payments over the last year and about $100 in a year from page views. I often write about Health & Wellness topics, such as the health benefits of certain foods or herbs or spices, and I also review products, restaurants, etc and get up-front payments for all of that. I write a lot of poetry but do not get paid up-front for it. What's your name on AC? I will check out some of your stuff and add you to my faves. : )
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@oscar6 (1938)
• United States
17 Jun 11
I hadnt in the past did anything to increase page views. However recently I have decided to do things to increase them even though I make a decent amount per month ( I make anywhere from eighteen dollars to twenty eight dollars a month). I have added links to my mylot profile page to my articles. I also have decided to add links to my blog.
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• United States
10 Dec 09
I don't really use AC as an income, I ghost write for another site that I do pretty well at but I'd like to grow my own library of articles and I think AC is the place to do that. I plan to start growing my library next year and my goal is 200 articles. Since I've been writing as a ghost writer I've learned about SEO techniques and how to make sure my article is at the top of the search engine list. Bethany, you don't need luck, you've got skill!
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• United States
11 Dec 09
I really don't use AC as an income, as I do have a full-time job, but I would love to be able to double or triple what I make there, which is altogether only about $100 a month right now, give or take -- depending on how much I decide to write in a given month. I write for eHow as well, and would like to raise my earnings there, too, but I want to increase earnings from AC first.
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• India
28 Dec 09
Hello my friend Bethany1202 Ji, Well, sorry to dsappoint you, but I have never tried all this. I can never think to earn taht much, as I do not need. I just want to pass my time by being with you all. I am not that much profficient at computer also. Wishing you a very happy Chrismas and New Year-2010. May God bless You and have a great time.
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