Disappointment, but Life Goes On...

Don't get discouraged. I have heard that happening with "unpopular and not very searched" topics. I'm sure you will get upfronts again soon. They rejected one of my articles for upfront saying I needed to site the source. If they would have read the article they would have known it was through personal experience and operating my own company in the industry. Sometimes, I wonder if they even read the article.

I have had this happen with Associated Content, and I suspect it has more to do with their finances than your writing. It's really hard to get upfront payments from them now. Unless I do "Call for Content" articles in which you know they will pay if they take your article, I just submit things for page views and publish somewhere else first. It can be disheartening. It's hard to get rejected so many times in a row. However, that's what publishing is like. I know I get depressed myself when this happens. You have just got to hang in there...or try other places. I would shop the article around if you think it's got real potential. If you don't care that much, just submit for page views. You will still make money. And if you post it to a site like Helium that doesn't care about first rights, you can repost it to AC and get twice the bang for your article. Good luck. We have all been there!

I hardly ever write for upfront payment any more. I find that writing for page views is just as lucrative if I promote the articles. That way I don't have to depend on AC's definition of what's popular and I can publish more... something you might think about if you continue to have problems with rejections. They're not always right. :)

I wish you luck but remember that the road to success includes some failures as well.it depends on you to be strong and wake up and learn from these failures. Don't get disheartened after each refusal. keep trying and try to imporove your writing. You never know when your work will be published. Good luck in your quest.

Good luck! I get disappointed with AC when their reasons for declining don't make sense for me. For example, I wrote a detailed review of a small restaurant - and it got accepted... I wrote a detailed review of a big name restaurant that was just opened, and it got declined saying there was too much similar content. So I searched. While others had written about the restaurant, I was the only one that wrote a REVIEW of it while others had only announced it was going to open. It made me think AC editors don't even consider reading the article, they just say "this is about restaurant x, we have 10 articles on restaurant x, must decline!" I've also going the response that they didn't think it would be searched for. So I published those display only and guess what! I got a lot of hits on those ones. So I really think the editors have no clue what will get hits and what won't. It all depends on who reviews your article and how they feel that day I guess :) I've been there since 2007 and had a lot accepted and a lot rejected and yet I still cannot figure out the pattern.

Best of luck, and don't be discouraged. They've been declining articles for up-front payment for awhile. The last time I had an AC article published was more than two years ago, but they've paid me a few bucks each year since for page views. If you submit an article and they deny up-front payment, maybe the best thing to do is let them publish it and pay you long-term.

I have had the same problem the last two weeks. I have written things that I think will do well only to have them rejected. Keep writing and keep posting even if you are only getting page views, you are still making money.

It can be disappointing when this happens. I wish you lots of luck with your review articles. I know that when I first started with associatedcontent I had a lot of articles rejected because they were too similar to the articles that they already had on thier site. I however have now found the type of articles that they like and am making a lot of money.

dont let it get you down for real, since ive gotten into writing songs and i get that all the time, there is someone who dont like one of my songs but its ok that is one person keep trying.. it comes with what you do, just keep trying

After they rejected my article on flowers for the whole house under $20 I went back to helium. They sent me an email before the super bowl offering $10 for a first person account of the climate in N.O. and what I would be doing for the game. I submitted a follow up for which they offered $3+ and I accepted a C4C for $4.50 to do a video review of a local restaurant. From now on I only do C4Cs. I am still at clout 4. If I ever make to 10 maybe I'll change my mind.