Health & Wellness Content Drive

Associated Content is hosting a Health & Wellness content drive!

Health & Wellness content has always performed well on AC – there are lots of people searching for health tips and most health advice is evergreen. From now until the end of July, each Health & Wellness article published on AC enters its author in sweepstakes, with a chance to win a Nintendo Wii Fit or one of two Fitbit Trackers. We hope that you’ll use this opportunity to build your own library of useful, search engine-optimized Health & Wellness content.

Here are the details of the sweepstakes:

-The contest runs today through July 31.
-Every article you publish in the Health and Wellness category counts as an entry (limit 12 entries per person).
-On August 11, one grand prize winner will be selected to receive a Nintendo Wii and Wii Fit package, including balance board. Two runners up will each receive a Fitbit Tracker.
-Read the official rules here.

Need some ideas to get started? Try publishing:

-Guides to shaping up for summer
-Your personal experience dealing with illness
-Coverage of hot topics in the health world
-Reviews of weight loss products
-Tips for keeping your kids happy & healthy

Good luck and happy publishing!

AC is Evolving

Earlier this year, we introduced the term Source into the Associated Content vocabulary as a new way to describe the individuals who publish content on AC. Since then, feedback we've collected from our visitors and community has indicated that our use of the term is confusing. So, we gathered suggestions for alternative names and now we're going to make another change.

From now on, AC will proudly refer to our publishers as Contributors. It’s a simple change, but one that we hope will give each individual a better sense of ownership over the content they create, and give our visitors a clear sense of what AC is all about. In the weeks ahead, you can expect to see us phasing out Source while we bring Contributor to the fore.

But that’s not the only way in which AC is evolving.

In May, we made some significant changes to our home page. Now we’re going to start experimenting with alternative home page layouts to determine how best to encourage visitors to explore the AC library. You should know that this is a process we take seriously. All of our decisions are guided by the data we collect from visitor interactions with the site, and we’ll continue to tweak things as we analyze the results of each change.

Click on the thumbnails below to see previews of just two of many possible arrangements.



This is only the beginning. In the weeks and months ahead, you’ll be seeing even more changes, some minor and some major, in other areas of the site. Why are we doing this? To improve the visitor experience. The library that you’ve created is wealth of useful information. We want to present it in the best possible way, while encouraging visitors to dive deeper and come back for more – increasing page views and putting extra money in your pocket!

Thanks to AC’s many talented Contributors! Stay tuned for exciting new experiments!

"My Content" Filters

If you check out your My Content page on Associated Content, you'll notice that we've added new filters that make it easier for you to manage your AC library.

Rather than looking at your content in one long list, you can now filter your content by status: Submitted, Offer, Processing and Published. You can even check out all of your Incomplete content and decide whether you'd like to remove it, keep it on hold or finish submitting it.

These minor improvements make your My Content page easier to use, and they'll even help it load faster.

Soon, we'll be rolling out some Account page enhancements that will provide you with even more valuable information about your library of content.

Happy publishing!

Congrats to May's Award Winners!

We'd like to congratulate the winners of Associated Content's Best New Source and Best of AC Awards for the month of May!

Our monthly contests acknowledge and reward some of the most talented AC Sources, old and new, publishing extraordinary content in a wide range of topics.

Our Best of AC winners for the May are Otter (Computer & Video Game Reviews), Gayle Crabtree (Local Coverage) and Angel Vee (Wedding Guides) - three fantastic contributors who distinguished themselves in their respective categories amongst a large and diverse group of nominees.

Our Best New Sources for May are Sean Easley, Sam Zolin and Meg C. Each of them are off to a great start, having published more than 50 pieces of content and reached Clout 5 or above in their first months on AC. Stop by their profiles and welcome them to the AC Community!

We'll be looking out for three great new Sources in June, and giving out Best of AC Awards for Automotive, Summer Travel Guides and Web Technology. If you'd like to nominate yourself or anyone else for one of these awards, please do so on the AC Forum or by emailing your nomination to community@associatedcontent.com.