Making More Money with Associated Content

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 | Freelance Writing with No Comments »

You may have heard that diversification in the stock market is a good thing to reduce risk. Well, the same thing applies to your online business. The more ways you have set-up to make money the safer you’ll be. That’s why I’ve started sharing additional ideas outside of paid surveys with you. I want you to be able to make money in a variety of ways. This not only makes your income safer, but it’s a lot more interesting too!

Yesterday I introduced you to the idea of freelance writing to make some extra money online. I want to drill down on this idea a little bit today by focusing on just one of the websites I highlighted for you yesterday. I’m going to give you some tips for using Associated Content to add to your online income fairly easily.

Associated Content is a website that pays their authors in two ways. First, they will pay you an ongoing commission of $1.50 per 1000 views for every article you submit to them. This is forever so the more you submit the more this passive income stream will grow. I don’t know about you, but I love to keep getting paid forever for work I only have to do once.

The second way they pay is through direct payments to the article authors. That’s right, they will pay you for your articles! There is just one condition your article needs to meet; it must be original content written by you. That’s it. In my experience you can get paid anywhere from $3.53 to $7.50 per article. Keep in mind I have only been writing for them for less than a month so these numbers could be higher or lower.

In the past two weeks I have had 4 articles accepted for a total of $19.43. Not bad considering the articles were fairly short (400-500 words) and took me just a bit over an hour to write. I am also getting commissions based on page views now and after 10 days the total there is a whopping $0.58! I know not much at all, but keep in mind it is only 4 articles over 10 days. Imagine 400 articles over the course of a year

There are several things I think you can do to maximize the amount of money you make with Associated content.

Make your articles specific and focused, not general. For example, it’s better to write about fancy blue widgets rather than just widgets.
Write articles in batches. Since you’re doing the research now it is easier to write 3-4 articles at a time while everything is fresh in your mind.
When you submit articles you will be asked for optional information like images and reference links. Include these and it seems like you’ll get paid more.
If you haven’t already start participating in social sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. Good articles submitted to these sites can get you thousands of page views.

Again, this is not something you can use to quit your day job, but it is one more thing you can do to make some extra money quickly and easily online. Combined with other strategies like paid surveys and you’ll start to see your monthly earnings increasing.

Popularity: 16% [?]

Paid Survey Success