I'm confused on making money with Associated Content.

I do know that Associated Content will offer you upfront payment if they are interest in your article. I also know that you are paid by page views. I'm not sure about the status=submitted. I think it means that your content has been submitted and if you requested an upfront payment they will contact you with a offer or they will decline your article. Happy Mylotting.

I actually got confused with that one too. I thought I could also publish my content and earn from AC but then I haven't recognized that it just pays for US citizens. Anyway, I hope you'll be successful in AC. =)

If you live in the US, then you can receive upfront payments for your submissions. Associated Content does not offer upfront payments for every article however. If you submit an article that is unique to their library, and the subject is something that has a "long shelf life" (an article that isn't news today, but old news a couple months from now) then they may offer you an upfront payment. If you are outside of the US, you may still submit articles for performance payments. All articles are eligible to earn money based on views...for every 1,000 views your submissions receive, they pay $1.50. So if you submit 10 articles in the month of May, and all 10 receive exactly 100 views during the month, you will receive $1.50 from the views. If all your articles are extremely popular, and receive 1,000 views each, you'll receive $15.00 for that month's performance payment. I had an article a little more than a year ago receive 2,500 views in less than a week, and nearly 4,000 for the month. I guess several of those viewers checked out some of my other submissions because my performance payment for that month was more than $10. I have not submitted an article for almost a year now, but still receive payments into my Paypal when my submissions receive 1,000 total views.