February Update : Day 10

A week has went by so I thought it was time to give an update. This is a big update for me. A couple of things happened over the past week.

I fixed my gaming computer. Turns out all it needed was a new power supply. I found one pretty cheap on the Internet. $17.99. It might be cheap but it is 550 watts and it runs my PC just fine. No more loaner PC for me. The one I had was just so old but I am glad I had it for the moment, as it allowed me to purchase the power supply.

I currently have 361 page views for the 9 days it has counted. That is almost 40 page views a day on average. I need around 54 page views a day on average to attain my goal. However something happened today. I had submitted 3 articles for up-front payments. I received an email today letting me know one of them was declined for up-front. My morale was shot but I went on to publish it as a Display Only. Later on I received another email saying that an offer has been made. They are willing to pay me $3.53 for one of the articles, then another one about an hour later for $3.00. This made me very happy and raised my morale through the roof.

I had a very good weekend. I'm back to being able to play games and have a fast computer to do my work on. Faster computer makes researching things easier. Especially when you need to read from one page and type on another. Windows 7 helps me do that. That is for sure. I had Windows XP on the loaner PC and it had Microsoft Word on it. I wrote all of my stuff using that so now I am used to it. I will be getting it for Windows 7 because I don't like the Word that it comes with much. Not enough features and no spell check.

February Update: Day 3

With three days under my belt into February, I have notched in 80 page views. Running behind schedule a bit, but I put in 3 articles on the 4th. I did one on the Top 5 Signs to Get a New Computer, in the morning time. For lunch I did a movie review on the action movie The Mechanic. Right before I ate my dinner I finished up a 2 page article about the 10 Reasons to Dislike a Cell Phone.

I still have 3 pending articles that I submitted for up-front pay. I have not received any notifications about it yet ether. Nine days have passed since submitting them. !YCN/AC says that the process normally takes about 1-2 weeks. So I sit and wait.

Not to get discouraged though. I have 24 more days this month. However if I maintain a strong work ethic and a positive attitude, everything should be ok. As the day ticks over into the 5th day of February, I await until the morning time again, to see how many page views I obtained on the 4th.

February Goals

February I will try to spend at least 5 days a week writing something. I need to set a goal for this month. Something that I can expect myself to fulfill. I don't want to set my goal to high though. I guess just go from what I done last month. Though I don't exactly know what I should set them at. I only wrote for 10 days last month. I will start small this month so I don't feel bad at the start if I don't reach my goal.

Page Views = 1500
I choose 1500 because I obtained almost 700 in 10 days. I think 1500 should be obtainable goal to reach with full 28 days at hand.

Articles = 40
I have 20 now. 40 shouldn't be so hard to get. With 28 days to write, that would amount to 1 a day for 20 days, with 8 days of not writing. 8 days to not write is cake. I might even write on the off days, to see if I can surpass my goal.

Goals are set. Lets see how well I fair.

January's End

Well the month of January is over. I have been writing since my birthday, which was on the 21st. I managed to pull in 689 page views on my articles. That makes my estimated performance balance at around $1.03. Not bad if I don't say so myself. Only 10 days of writing and roughly around maybe 4 hours of research and writing was put into them.

I didn't really have a goal set for the month of January, I kind of just jumped back into writing without setting any goals for the month. Plus the month was about over anyways. I did manage to get 3 new fans. Doesn't make much of a difference, but it still helps knowing people want to continue to read my work.

My clout level reach 60% into the next rank, still sitting at rank 4. I need 2175 more page views to get to the next rank, based on page views alone. I also get a bonus of 1% per article that I produce. While this helps some, its not helping as much as I would like it to, but I don't have that many articles published yet. I do have 20 articles at the moment, so my bonus should be at 20%, which is not all that bad.

I will be setting goals for February. I will post them later on today odds are.

Top 50 Contributors on Associated Content

You can find the original article here. The top 50 contributors on Associated Content by amount of page views. You can compare the list as of August 28, 2010 by clicking the above link. Credits go to Ryan DeVault for making the original list.

Updated as of Jan. 29, 2011

1. Crystal Ray -- 22,057,462
2. R. Ann Siper -- 21,686,280
3. Saul Relative -- 18,818,776
4. Robert Dougherty -- 16,231,894
5. Kassidy Emmerson -- 14,932,180

6. Ryan DeVault -- 14,814,455
7. Pam Gaulin -- 13,966,931

8. Emma S. -- 12,434,404
9. Steve Thompson -- 10,084,639
10. Sabah Karimi -- 9,054,560
11. Amy Brantley -- 8,459,193
12. Timothy Sexton -- 8,374,285
13. Kristie Leong M.D. -- 8,277,178
14. Wendy Dawn -- 8,161,795
15. Christine Cadena -- 7,893,160
16. Meg G. -- 7,584,829
17. Angel Vee -- 6,859,197
18. Marilisa Kinney Sachteleben -- 6,181,090
19. A. Hermitt -- 6,127,688
20. Jillita Horton -- 5,990,997
21. Ayanna G. -- 5,750,511
22. Will Wright -- 5,652,902
23. Jody Morse -- 5,553,098
24. Karen Barnes -- 5,544,230
25. Victoria Leigh Miller -- 5,387,582
26. Roz Zurko -- 5,378,845
27. Jasmine Starr -- 5,245,856
28. C. Jeanne Heida -- 5,244,686
29. Mark Whittington -- 5,119,087
30. Sylvia Cochran -- 4,933,729
31. Phil Dotree -- 4,770,287
32. Jonathan McLelland -- 4,765,045
33. Lee Andrew Hender -- 4,710,903
34. J. Rica Middlebrooks -- 4,454,562
35. Christine Bude Nyholm -- 4,391,713
36. Ron Hart -- 4,338,972
37. Cassandra James -- 4,180,961
38. Melanie L. Marten -- 4,128,111
39. Linda Ann Nickerson -- 4,046,186
40. Regina Sass -- 3,932,481
41. Jennifer Claerr -- 3,385,818
42. Alicia White -- 3,317,998
43. Charlotte Kuchinsky -- 3,278,508
44. Sophie S. -- 3,225,650
45. Carol Bengle Gilbert -- 3,224,761
46. Michelle Devon -- 3,179,012
47. Jeff Gedgaud -- 3,143,953
48. Donna Daniels -- 3,065,932
49. Jan Corn -- 3,008,816
50. Johnathan Duvy (Penny Richards) -- 2,916,234