Associated Content (AC) pays $3-$5 for most articles - some a little more, some a little less, and some not at all. They also pay you $1.50 per 1000 pageviews. In fact, many authors refuse the up-front payment because it slows down publication. Instead, they aggressively promote their articles and rack up huge amounts of money off the pageviews.
Last year I made right at $300 for my articles, including the up-front payment and the pageviews. I have to say that I could have made that amount every month, but I'm too lazy to work the system the way it's designed to be worked.
If I wrote an article every weekday - say 20 per month - I'd make between $70-$100 in up-front payments that month. If each of those articles got 1000 pageviews, that would be another $30. Even better, if two of those articles got 10,000 pageviews, the amount would be more like $300! And so on.
However, racking up PV's on Associated Content is hard work. You have to be "out there", and take each article you want to promote and add it to search engines and directories all over the internet. You also have to get people to link to your articles. It can be a very time-consuming process.
Writing is hard work too, which is why I haven't written an article every work day! The trick to writing articles that pay well on Associated Content is to either write something of great appeal - for example, anything on Brittney Spears tends to do well - or, to write something for a niche market. My articles on gluten-free baking and food allergies have generated the highest traffic of anything I've written on Associated Content.
So - while this opportunity won't bankroll my next vacation, it does keep my PayPal card with a few bucks on it. That few bucks keeps me in coffee whenever we go out!!
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