Associated Content November 2011 Earnings

Well, my earnings for November were highly disappointing. I eanred just over $39, which is a few dollars more than my average, but much lower than I anticapted given my "experiment". I have yet to hear anything regarding my articles being taken down/suspended/or however else the site puts it since the switch to Yahoo! Voices.

I am still averaging higher page view wise at Suite 101 and my Hubpages are doing well. I changed the site to a combination of HubPages and Adsense earnings. That led to a little over $2 in Adsense earnings and close to $2 in Hubpages earnings within a week. Given that I am still in the process of figuring out keywords and uploading information, I think I am doing pretty well.

I plan on creating Xomba and InfoBarrel accounts and spreading my work around the different sites, which should increase earnings. I also got approved as a dessert Examiner, which should be fun. Soon I will have the following sites for passive income:

Yahoo! Voices
HubPages
Suite 101
Examiner
Squidoo
InfoBarrel
Xomba

When I factor in my Kindle plans, I only need to make $300 per site to make enough to support myself without needing to write articles for others. Keep reading my blog and see how close I come.

December Goals

Here is what I have coming up for December:

Rent - $565
Electric - $130
Water - $35 (technically due in January)
Cable - $170 (one month behind)
Gas - $100 (estimate)

That brings me up to $1,000 total. Then come the other "expenses"...

Christmas Gifts - $500 (total estimate! I have three nieces, two nephews, two sister-in-laws, two brothers, parents, and a boyfriend).
Christmas Cookies - $100 (another estimate, want to try new recipes this year)
Christmas Decorations - $100 (lost most of mine during the last move)

Add that $700 to the other total and factor in the costs of living expenses, i.e. gas and food, and the price keeps rising.

To reach my goals, I want to get two ebooks loaded onto the Kindle platform. Both are haunted tales and both just need a final edit and cover finished. I also plan on writing for five content mills/private clients and publishing five articles per week on Suite 101 and possibly YCN. The YCN articles will likely be page views only and uploaded as "Display Only". I also have a chance to write for another client that will put $200 to $500 in my pocket each week, which would be very nice right now!

AC Experiment = Huge Failure

Well, my Associated Content Experiment (now known as the Yahoo! Voices Experiment, I guess) was a huge failure. I no longer even look at the number of articles I submitted because each came with a bright red rejection notice. I only submitted two articles since the last time I posted and each came with a rejection attached.

I decided to do some more on haunted places because (a) I was getting a reputation as the haunted girl and (b) the articles do fairly well year-round. I submitted two and both came with a rejection. One was on ghosts of a major amusement park, which surprisingly no one covered on AC before. It was rejected because apparently it is not a popular search term. I beg to differ, given that it is commonly discussed on forums/message boards, but very little articles actually exist.

The other article was rejected because I did not cite sources. That was my own fault, but given the other rejection, I doubt the editor would have approved it anyway...