Associated content is a web site that will pay you via paypal for unique articles.  What can these articles be about?  Just about anything that you can imagine, but you need to read their terms of service, of course.

You can ask for an upfront payment and they will pay you a certain amount of money, if they like your article.  How much do they pay?  Well, that depends on the article.  There is another way that you can make money with associated content.

This isn’t an upfront payment, you get paid for performance.  They pay you based on how many visits that your article gets.  You can try this if you think that your article is going to get a ton views, but I wouldn’t advise that.

I believe in using associated content, not to make me rich, but to use it to get some investment money.  You can then take that money and invest it in other areas of your online business.  It is a quick cash cow.

You can write the articles yourself and raise upfront money that way or you use other strategies.  One thing that you can do is to outsource the article writing. 

Now, a lot of people only make $3 to $5 per article with associated content.  Some articles can be worth a lot more, but lets look at outsourcing these articles.

There are some article writers that I’ve found that only charge $1.50 an article.  Why would their rate be so low?  They are from a foreign country that is very poor.

Then, the next question is, how about the quality?  I’ve seen some of these articles and they’re very good and I would pass them off.  Yet, some of them need some work and that is where a person steps in and makes some corrections.

A person can also hire someone to rewrite PLR content or do it themselves.  There are a lot of different things that you can do.  You just want to make sure that the content passes copyscape and is good content.  You want to provide them with great content that they can benefit from.  Good content is king in the online world.