I'm interested to know, how much was the highest you've earned at AC?

Remember, those articles keep earning for as long as they are up. AC pays per view. So, as long as people are viewing your articles, you are getting paid. It is very passive income, you put the article up and leave it to earn (after promoting of course). Some articles are still earning more than a year later.

Amongst the discussions in mylot, I can sense that many here prefer AC. But I personally prefer Helium. AC is quite fun to write for, but it has occurred to me that it is rather stringent in the topics that are being submitted. For example, it is not approving articles that talk about online earning and affiliate marketing or articles in that light. And one more thing, articles take a long time to be reviewed and subsequently approved. I have 4 articles there and that is why earning is slow. I personally prefer Helium. Cheers.

Helium is a waste of time compared to AC. Perhaps you will have a hard time on AC getting up front payments, HOWEVER, post your articles for "no up front payment" and you still get paid for the page views every single month. Once you have a large collection of articles the earnings really start coming in strong. Check me out at the link below, I make over 100 bucks a month from page views without even writing anything, BUT I keep writing and growing and gaining more and more, plus I make lots of articles that get up front payment. A person who is willing to promote their articles and network can easily make good money on AC, there are people with loads more page views than I get even. I get $2.00 every 1,000 page views. Helium on the other hand makes a person rate and jump through hoops of their making with that stars crap. After my last pay out there I quit their system, too much work, for too little. At AC I get to call the shots on most of my own articles and work at whatever pace I choose, and money still comes in. http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/26766/wes_laurie.html

The most I have earned was just a little over four dollars I wrote on breeding betta fish.

Wow! You've been going around Jena! I haven't learned how to earn with Helium yet, and I've never been to AC or triond. I do hope I can find the time study all of those. I wish you luck. I will ask you for tips when I'm ready for them. ;)

I actually prefer the editing process on AC. It can be slow and it can be frustrating when you can't figure out why their offers are so low but I think the strict criteria makes it a little more reputable in creating a portfolio. Plus, I don't know if Helium sells articles to external third-party sites but in the few months that AC has been doing this (I think they implemented it in July or August of 2008) I have had five of my articles sold to external sites. Four of the five to college recruiters to distribute to freshmen and transfer students. As for my highest earnings, I think the highest offer I've received on an article was $8. They say the offer between $4 and 30, depending on topic, content, quality and SEO. SEO is where I lose out every time. An "ideal" SEO is 5% of the content of your writing should be your keywords. So if you write 100 words about Thanksgiving traditions, you should use the words "Thanksgiving traditions" 5 times. More than 5% gets flagged by search engines and pushed to the bottom of the heap, less than 3% is basically unsearchable. But sometimes 5% starts to sound forced and unnatural, to me, anyway.