Associated Content.review

Associated content was one of the first sites I ever started working for after I decided to become a freelance writer. I signed up for the site a couple years ago along with Hubpages when I started writing as a hobby. Well, after I started to get serious about writing for a living, I remembered signing up for an account on the site. I decided some time ago to revisit it and see it has something to offer.

Upfront payments with Associated Content.

One of the best things about the site is that it offers a gracious upfront payment system. However, after the panda update with Google, Associated Content seems to not pay as much for upfront payment. It has been said that the site to a hard hit for Google rankings. It is true that the quality of an article does not need to be superb to be accepted on the site. Therefore, there is a lot of substandard content on the site. I'm assuming that because of this, Associated Content cannot pay as much for upfront payments as they used to. Upfront

The importance of knowing basic SEO

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If you are a freelance writer it is because you love to write. Does that sound difficult? It shouldn't. Unfortunately, it is more complicated than that. If you are writing to make money, then you need to understand the business side of writing. If you want paying gigs, you need to know how to market yourself, but all the marketing in the world won't help you with jobs that involve SEO.

What is SEO?

That's the big question isn't it? You are probably wondering what SEO is and why it is so important. Well, like I said before, if you want clients, you are going to need to know SEO. SEO stands for "Search Engine Optimization," and really, there's no other way to describe it. When an article is SEO'd (Yeah, I know that might not sound right) clients will want it. Clients understand how the web works. What good is an article, no