Do you simply keep writing articles for Triond or Bukisa only or for both? Or do you republish your same articles at both the sites? Have you ever thought there is a difference between both the sites and how to conform your articles to that difference? This is an attempt to show what those differences are, how to plan your writing to these sites and how to make the most out of both.

Bukisa is a New Writing Site…

With the introduction of a new writing site called Bukisa, many Triond writers have started writing there. Well, there seems to be a consensus among those writers that this new site has opened another great opportunity for online publishing of their articles. I wondered several times about which site to write consistently. But I realized that it is better to find out the differences between both the sites and then use them both effectively.

Bukisa is Not Another Helium… But Another Triond?

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Earlier I wrote an article on the writing for Triond and Helium. At that time Helium was not just a place to write, but that lured writers easily than Triond did. I had written about writing at Helium and what is best to do there or not. There is nothing more that I can write about that now. All I can say is that the new Bukisa writing site appears similar to Helium in one aspect – that they both use Google as advertiser. Hence the earnings per article are very competitive at both of these sites compared to Triond. Of course this is a known fact for many writers.

But Bukisa is not like Helium where there are a lot of rules even to earn money from your own articles. The entire site looks as if to benefit only the owner of the site more than the writing community. So I will not speak much about Helium here. Rather Bukisa is more like Triond. It is built by two online Entrepreneurs who have found their success earlier with an article marketing site called articlebase.com.

Early Bird to Catch Up Fast…

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For many writers, writing at Bukisa at first looks like writing for better earning from the same number of articles and same number of page views as well. It initially surprised me but I thought that it is because of the difference in cost per view of articles in which Bukisa scaled well. It surprised me again to find out more about Bukisa and learn that it too is competitive in terms of articles that go viral which is a popular phenomenon at Triond.

If you did not know, it takes considerable time for a website to get considered by search engines and give page ranks to their individual web pages. Bukisa as a startup did particularly well in here.

Features at Bukisa

Writing at Bukisa is very similar to writing at Triond. But there are some aspects that make Bukisa a better place than Triond. Of course there are certain other aspects that make Triond a better place than Bukisa. Knowing these two will help us make the most of out these two sites.

Bukisa Features – 1 Type of Your Articles

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When writing at Bukisa, you have the choice to write on any topic but specifically on types that are how-to’s, helping articles etc. This will particularly force you to concentrate on molding your articles that will make the reader feel as being helped in someway. These are also the kind of articles that are most clicked by the audience because of  urge to learn something. As this works and most people search for stuff that help them in some way, you will become a writer who writes most productive articles.

Bukisa Features – 2 Licensing Your Aritcles

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There is a feature at Bukisa that asks you to set a license for your articles. This is a creative commons license. You must have been already aware of this here when using pictures for your articles. At Bukisa you can set any type of license. It opens a new never thought about phenomenon for your articles. By default your articles are set to Attribution license. That means anybody that copies your article should link to the main article, attributing the original work to you.

This is a great feature. You may be wondering how this should be, given others can easily copy your work and specifically you are allowing them to do so. Your well researched, well thought-out, hard worked article does not go waste because of this copy. But it only helps your article because the copier now has to copy along with the attribution link to your article. When search engines index that copied article, they find your article’s link and update its rank higher. Every time somebody copies that article search engines increase the rank further. Note that the copier does not get any page rank benefit out of copied article as search engines always know which article was indexed first.

How Does Licensing Help Your Earnings?

When your article is well ranked in search engines, no matter on what topic it is, it will be shown in the top position of search results for related keywords in your article’s title and body. This is so powerful in sending massive traffic that your article can receive everyday from one visit to 10s, 100s or even thousands if it is made extremely hot. When high page rank website copies your articles, that gives more rank for your original article than otherwise a low page rank site did. That also sends you huge traffic from that website because it was already popular. So this is a highly beneficial phenomenon to help you earn more money in the long run. To make sure that the copier links correctly to your article, Bukisa provides html version of your article that includes the link to your article, under republish this article button below the article.

To know this license effect in action, go to flickr.com and search for popular pictures having high page rank and licensed under creative commons attribution. You can note that they already have a lot of comments. More number of comments imply even more number of visitors to that page. You can safely assume that 1 out of 100 visitor writes a comment.

Of course you can also choose to copyright your work so that no one can copy without infringement.

Bukisa Features – 3 Higher Earnings Index

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The other obvious benefit from Bukisa is the higher value of what they call as your earnings index. It indicates the number of dollars your article earns should it receive thousand views. Currently it is 3.42 indicating that you will get 3.42 dollar per thousand views or 0.342 cents per view. Bukisa openly updates this information in their blog. To calculate this value for your articles at Triond, go to your content page after logging in at Triond, and change time range to a month duration. Then take ratio of the number of views to no of cents earned for different articles. That will let you know similar index for your articles at Triond. I found that this is different for your different article categories but I also found that none of my articles has this index higher or even closer to this value. Many other writers also seem to have found it so!

Bukisa Features – 4 Copy Edit

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This is another good feature at Bukisa that is not with Triond. Even when we write best of our articles, revised them again and again, we may miss some of the grammer or spelling mistakes that even editors would have missed. With this feature, the reader gets the chance to correct the text for grammatical, spelling or similar other reasons.

This is a recently added feature. I think this is still in test mode. But we can note that many people take the time if needed to do small editions than writing their own big articles. That is how the today’s big Wikipedia is built.

This can also create fear about loss of our intended content. Don’t worry! The reason for an edit is always noted, the edition is not approved unless the editor is a registered user at goosegrade.com and you have approved the correction.

Start At Bukisa… But Do Not Ignore Triond!

With all these benefits it may tempt you go start writing at Bukisa. You can start there but do not ignore Triond for there are some good features here that are missing at Bukisa and make Triond stand apart from Bukisa.

Triond Features – 1 Larger Audience for Your Articles

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Your article at Triond is viewed by a larger audience because the site exists from a long time and built a large community of writers who spend lot of time reading others’ articles, the popularity of publishing networks is also very high and viewed by audience coming from several different search engines, across countries and lot of social bookmarking sites. This wide audience somewhat compensates the difference in the earnings index per article at Triond versus Bukisa. Atleast that is my view.

As Triond has been popular, the various useful types of articles and how-to’s receive good number of page views and continue to receive every day than other dull articles. Some of my articles now have got higher page ranks, attract regular visits one their own without my promoting them. I also observed that everyone out of 10 articles is doing well on its own, in my collection. This motivates anybody to consistently write. Of course there are many who have either just started, or didn’t write enough number of articles, or just didn’t do enough research to make a powerful article that would have shown them the effect.

Triond Features – 2 The Unparalleled Triond Community of Writers

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The community feature at Triond is unparalleled at anywhere else on the internet. Bukisa has not yet implemented that. Though you can add friends and view their articles, write comments, have a separate profile page, a separate inbox that exists at Triond for communication is not present at Bukisa. This feature is found to inspire many people to continue to write at Triond.

The best thing here is that you can comment at others’ articles and expect to receive comments from them for your articles. Having traversed on the blog networks on the internet, I have learnt that many people reading blogs do not write comments. Only very few out of 100 actually write comments. And even if we go and write at others’ blogs we cannot expect to receive a similar reciprocation for our blog. This is because there is a no particular community mindset in the blogging world that is similar to Triond.

A Community Just for You – the Writer

Also in the Triond community writers do not force you to write long comments as the blogging world demands. This is particularly very important and the best thing about Triond writing community. You can go and say “thanks”, “nice article”, “best article”, and compliment others’ work without worrying whether your comment will be reciprocated. The community at Triond is built to benefit the writers. This is a very unique community that is not present in any online blog communities, forums, membership sites or social bookmarking sites.

Some people go to the extent of thinking that they may have to write 200 comments if they have 200 friends in their profile. No, write as many comments as that result in atleast 10 comments for your article. 10 comments for an article make it worthy of ranking by search engines. This is from my observation only. Don’t write too many comments trying to go to the hot content page. This can discourage you someday if it took too much of your time. Start small and let the time take care of growth of your articles’ popularity!

Triond Features – 3 Promoting Your Niches with Only Your Articles

One last feature that I found at Triond that is better than at Bukisa is in the self-linking of your articles. Both the sites allow linking from one article to your other relevant articles. But Triond allows these links without a “rel=nofollow” tag while Bukisa did. For those who did not know about this tag, it is a tag that controls whether the search engines should use that link as valid one to update the rank of the following site. With this tag search engines ignore that link and do not increase the rank of the site being linked. If this tag is not present then those links will benefit the linked sites.

What this means is that if you have written several articles in a particular niches and inter-linked them, they all are going to benefit in terms of search engine positions. The links still generate traffic when someone reading an article wants to read more on that topic. But these links without that above tag, make search engines increase the rank of these articles. Higher ranks get independent traffic for each of those articles. Also if one of the articles in that self-linking group gets its links from outside world, that is re-distributed to all other articles it links to, down the chain. This self-linking structure works like an amplifier or a magnifier!

So even if one article gets a page rank, that will help all articles in that niche. This is particularly useful considering the fact that atleast one out of your ten articles always does well. Presently I am not sure if there is a way to control this tag, but I found that by default links from your article are tagged like this at Bukisa.

Triond Features – 4 Editorial Process

This is almost an ignored thing at Triond. But did you notice that even when you write your article’s title in small letters with uppercase only for the first letter, your published article has all of its words starting with an uppercase? Your images are resized, no matter what size image you give in the draft, to fit well inside the space of your article to be attractive to the maximum number of readers. Sometimes some text is omitted or modified to appeal it to the search engines.

When you throw your text out of your word processor to the Triond editor, did you know what kind of effort it takes to remove all the hidden tags that word processor adds, before publishing it cleanly at Triond? This is also the reason why small poems get published pretty fast because there is less to edit. One of my poems was published soon after I submitted, even before my browser could load the mailbox!

All these things we almost take for granted are taken care by the editing team at Triond. You may wonder why they do these changes that you might not have wanted. But they do that based on their observation about which format of articles has attracted large number of audiences. It is easy to notice above mentioned things in effect when you read different formats of articles at different sites for prolonged time.

Even when you write an article without any formatting, the Editorial team puts effort to do that. Of course they do not do your work of adding headlines, bulleting points, etc. But they do some work to add value to your article at the same time not changing your article too much. Sometimes it may happen it is not the way you expected. But most of the time it is for good.

One is Good… Two is Great!

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Both sites have lot of other features that are similar at both sites. For example,

1. adding pictures to your articles,
2. categorizing articles,
3. fixing older articles,
4. networking,
5. profile page,
6. widgets,
7. official blog about updates or site improvements,
8. different content varieties or channels,
9. a pen name different from your actual name and
10. many others.

Knowing these features at these two sites helps you to effectively use them to write best articles and promote them effectively. If these are known and used properly in your article collection, both sites will give their best earnings for you. Having two publishing sites is always good as it gives popularity for your pen name and brands it!

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