Writing Online: To Write or Not to Write for Triond.com?
I've been writing on this site since November, 2009. I thought a detailed yet fun (we are never giving up on that!) review. Image via http://earnmoney2k.com
Shakespeare asked the famous existential question in Hamlet: To be or not to be?
Well, Hamlet’s father was murdered and he was seeing ghosts, his relationship with Ophelia had problems because of his mental state and not to mention he had to bear the thought of his mother being married to his uncle.
Well, while our problems may not seem that dramatic compared to this famous fictional character, as writers, we have our own existential issues. In order to exist as writers (who make money from their crafts), we are doing our best to take advantage to make money writing online.
Triond, a site we all love to hate and hate to love. Some of our friends complained about the google adsense earnings (I haven’t seen a dime from my triond-adsense integration, so I have no idea), poor stats (I second that), low pay, plagiarism and having quality articles being rejected (happened to my friend Martine and me and I am sure it happened to more people) and seeing a lot of low-quality articles happily accepted that are mostly fabricated in masses for bigger earnings…
But Triond has its advantages as well as disadvantages. So here are the reasons to write and not to write for Triond. Read on and let me know what your verdict is.
To Write?
* It paid on time every time (my personal experience).
* It is minimum payout level is $0.50. It is very refreshing, because for most websites, whether it is online content, payperclick or advertising networks, the payout levels are high and hard to reach. For instance, I don’t know if Bukisa pays because they pay at $10.00 and I haven’t reached it yet.
* Triond is probably more popular than your blog. It has a google PR of 5 (which is, pretty good. The highest number is 10 and google gives it to itself. And Facebook. So Triond is good. Its alexa rating (worldwide) is about 15.248 (the ratings can change). The lesser the number, the better. But, when you consider the fact that millions of websites are listed, numbers around 15,000 aren’t bad at all.
* This PR and Alexa rating are good news: It means when you write on Triond, given that you have written a good, seo optimized article, people from all over the world can find you. Triond has a larger readers’ base than just its own participating writers.
* Triond has a great writer’s community. While there are spammers who barely read anyone else’s article and never add value to comments, there are many great writers from all walks of life. Whether you are 16 or 86, writing full time or for just hobby, you get to meet a huge and impressive variety of writers who read and support you. You do the same for them. Triond’s community is good enough to eliminate the lone wolf status of most writers.
* There is an affiliate opportunity. You get paid as writers who signed up from your link make money.
* Most Triond writers write for other sites as well as Triond. So the friendships you make here get extended to other writing platforms.
* Most writers try to keep with social media tools such as digg, stumble upon and twitter. Instead of trying to meet strangers and increase your following, you can get targeted followers and follow people whose shared stuff you are actually interested in.
*Remember numbers 3 and 4 and the emphasis I put on Triond’s online popularity status? You can take advantage of this by also linking from your articles to your blog and/or website.
* While some online writing platforms such as Hubpages put a limit on the number of your links,
* Triond allows you to link freely. This gives you the chance you also link to your Triond articles, your friends’ articles and write affiliate reviews.
*You can write about almost anything, as Triond distributes your articles to a variety of sites.
* Fiction is allowed.
Not to Write?
* The stats aren’t very advanced. You can’t analyze your traffic per article, for instance.
* You can’t really customize email notifications, so it is hard to follow-up with your comments.
* Your articles can be rejected for a ridiculous, irrelevant reason.
* Sometimes it can take up to 1,5-2 days for one article to be published.
* There is no spam filter for comments. Sure you can delete them if you notice an obnoxious comment but a person can swear or insult or spam without you noticing. The comment stays there until you notice and delete it. And keeping up with over 100 articles is tricky.
* It categorizes your content according to the title, without paying attention to the context, despite the category you have manually chosen. You think this is not a bad thing? Here are two ridiculous things that happened to me:
* I wrote a movie review of Gerard Butler’s Gamer and submitted it, expecting it to see on the movie review site cinemarolling. But it ended up on the site for game reviews, even though my summary clearly explained it was a movie review and well, my tags should have been a clue too. When I deleted and republished and got the same result, I changed the title: Gamer: Movie Review.Well, that was thankfully obvious enough as the review happily sits on the movies site.
*I wrote an article on relationships. It is about judging people by the appearances. The title is appropriately called “Who Doesn’t Judge a Book by Its Cover?”.But because of the “book”, it ended up on bookstove. I thought about deleting and reposting but this time, I kept it as it is. Since the title is about judging by appearances and Triond did just that, I left the irony. Still, that article doesn’t belong to bookstove. And I am guessing it is not being read as often as it would be. After all, people are there to read about books, not relationships.
* The rate for page view is pretty low.
* You can’t really calculate which article will get paid what in relation to pageviews: Some articles make as much money with 10 views as some does with 100. Sure, it is about how much they make from advertising, but stats should explain it so we can work on these.
* Does anyone make any money from their adsense- Triond account? It is a nice thought, but Triond suggest that even if you make money from it, adsense will pay you-not Triond. Guess at what minimum level adsense pays? $100. Exactly.
We like the freedom, variety, payout level and the writing community but we are not so crazy about the stats, payments and some other things. Well, what to do you think? What’s your answer? To write or not to write? My answer is obvious, as I have been here since November…
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So far I’m sticking with it, too, after having been on Triond for more than a year now. However, lately I’ve been frustrated with the waiting times on articles on being published. And the pay is sometimes frustrating, especially when I’m making more on fiction writing at the moment. Still, every little bit helps.
As for AdSense, I still suggest using it. It’s true the payout is $100, but I’ve gotten to the point where I’m making at least that much every other month on AdSense. I’m hoping eventually to get to the point where I’m making that much every month.
Thanks for commenting on the blog and giving me a chance to check out yours.
Don’t worry, I am using adsense. And thanks so much for signing up on mylikes. It is refreshing to earn advertising money no matter how small it might be.
I’d have probably gone very mad about the waiting period but thankfully there is a magic thing called blogging where
you publish and voila- it’s live. Triond is weird about what it publishes when, though. Sometimes it makes you wait for days and sometimes it is online as fast as it were my own blog. Weird.