You can earn money in four ways at YCN that is through accepting assignments, up-front offers, Performance Payments and distribution.
By accepting assignments the authors and contributors can submit content for Yahoo! sites, or any of Yahoo partner sites. Through many assignments one can earn up-front payments, up $25 (and even up to $100 through some Yahoo partner sites). To receive assignments through email alert you have to enable the option while signing up at YCN. In case through assignments you do not get topic of your interest then you have the option to submit content on topics of your choice. Your submissions may be eligible for upfront payments and if you have selected the upfront option then YCN may review the submitted content and offer something up to $15 before publishing it.
Once you get published then your content, based on the traffic, is also eligible for unlimited monthly performance payments at http://contributor. yahoo. com/help/earning-money/.
Content submitted at YCN may be published on more than one Yahoo! Websites and if such published content on one Yahoo! site gets "republished" on more Yahoo! site(s) you are likely to earn revenue for each and every Yahoo site at the rates applicable to the respective site.
If you opt for your content to be distributed to third party sites then you will also be eligible to receive distribution bonus. Yahoo Contributor Network makes all earning payments through PayPal, and if you don't already have PayPal account, you can create basic (free) PayPal account to start earning with the Yahoo! Contributor Network.