How far in advance do you submit articles for the holidays?

I have submitted a bunch of articles to helium for titles about Xmas. This allowed me to get empty title bonuses and up my writing score (which is steadily dropping sfter my hiatus) and believe it or not some of those off season articles have received hits. don't ask me how. I have a formula for it though; I don't just choose random titles.

All of my articles have been submitted for upfront payments. I suggest you try it. As for when you write them, now is a good time to start for Thanksgiving. Personally, I usually do it a month in advance. I only recently started with Halloween. I saw so many Halloween articles I figured I better submit for upfront before they stopped paying for them. LOL Good luck. Don't forget seasonal articles like fall and winter.

I don't have a lot of holiday articles at AC but they the page views are higher around the holidays so it is definitely worth writing holiday articles in my opinion. I think October is the month to write for Thanksgiving and late October for Christmas. I'm sure AC will be coming out with some of their holiday article assignments and I look forward to those because I think they're fun.

LOL--yes AC had been inundated with Halloween articles for quite awhile. To me it still seems WAY too early to write anything on Thanksgiving or Christmas. I would think for Thanksgiving related articles to start writing/posting them the last week of October and the last week of November for Christmas ones. As far as payment...I think most people just post them for payment performance--I guess it depends what KIND of holiday related article???

I would start now so you are ready for the holidays. Yes AC pays and they pay on what you are talking about upfront then you still get money for the page veiws. I did a write up for them about Aspen. Good Luck, Ainge

I don't write for AC as I'm out of the US and don't believe I'll get paid by them. But writing early for holidays is something freelancers have always needed to do. If you write for print, you need to submit about 6 months early to most markets. Things are much more immediate on the web, of course, but if you want to sell to webmasters, they still need to find content in good time.

Go ahead and start writing for the other holidays. It can take awhile for the search engines to index them and if won't hurt anything to have them already there when those holidays roll around. Just remember to promote them when the time comes. I've had pretty good luck with Christmas articles there - not so much with Thanksgiving, but I think I only have one of those at AC.

Actually I would think now would be some of the perfect times to start thinking about Christmas and Thanksgiving articles. If I were you, I would wait until the Call for Content on these articles, but if you are like me and have folders full of articles you would Love to submit somewhere, then this is the perfect time to start writing them. I have heard that the Call for Content articles can pay better, but I have never actually tried anything there yet.

I usually make most of my page view money around christmas time and I have a lot of Christmas articles. I would say yes that they do actually pay. I usually submit holiday articles one or two months in advance. I really enjoy writing these type of articles because they are easy to write and they give you a lot of page views for them.