Does anyone else write for Associated Content?
By raineyes
@raineyes (554)
United States
December 9, 2010 1:49pm CST
I do, and I love it. But I'm really frustrated that they keep changing everything now that Yahoo! has fully taken over.
Anyone else write for them? What are your thoughts on the new take-over and all the changes?
I can say that payments have increased a bit for assignments from the assignment desk, and that's a huge bonus in my eyes. But I keep having to relocate everything and retrain myself how to use everything.
5 responses
@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
14 Dec 10
raineyes, do they accept writers from Canada? I'll have to take a look at it. I write mainly for Triond and Bukisa. I put a couple of articles on Infobarrel but not sure if it's earning anything.
What other places to do write for?
@raineyes (554)
• United States
14 Dec 10
I write for several places, Associated Content being my favorite obviously. I'm not sure if you can write for them and be from Canada. You'll have to check.
I also write for Break Studios, Textbroker, eCopywriters, and Bright Hub as far as sites go.
Good luck!
@Haimrazat (30)
• Singapore
14 Dec 10
I just join Asscociated Content, now also know as Yahoo Contributor Network.
Looking for some tips from experts here.
@raineyes (554)
• United States
14 Dec 10
Find me on Associated Content (Morgan Stockton.) Send me a message there, and I will be glad to help.
I don't consider myself an expert, but I don't have 50 published articles and more in the works and can probably give you a tip or two.
Good luck! :D
@crimsonladybug (3112)
• United States
2 Jan 11
I am a Featured Music Contributor and one of the veterans of the site. They opened in January of 2005 and I joined in August. I've seen a lot of changes but the Yahoo buy out is a little weird. I'm glad that they did finally get it figured out so that we get performance bonus payments for articles that get published on Yahoo, because that wasn't in the original plan. Unfortunately, I haven't had Yahoo select any of my work yet for their site. :/
What frustrates me is about three weeks ago I published a full feature-length article that I was hugely proud of and which is still the most popular of all of my articles for this month and I only got $10 for it. I queried a few magazines before I published it with AC but didn't get any bites so I "settled" for considerably less than it was worth. So I'm promoting it like a crazy person (happily I have ten or twelve friends, plus the band I wrote it about, helping me to promote it, which is helping), trying to get what I think it's really worth.
@scheng1 (24650)
• Singapore
11 Dec 10
Hi Raineyes, I just hope that Yahoo can retain the old page view payment system for international writers.
I delete most of my articles after the page view payments stop. I do not see why I need to enrich Yahoo when it refuses to pay a single cent.
I have received several comments even though I do not login anymore, upload anything or get backlinks to the remaining content.
@tck_01 (96)
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10 Dec 10
I joined associated content although I'm mostly on suite101... I haven't really checked associated content guidelines since I'm really new to this freelance writing business... and I have a full time job so can only be partly dedicated to freelance writing... but you seem to point out that associated content has a few options and offers possibilities to make money... so sure, why not?...^^
