Did You See any Jump in the Earnings at Triond Lately?
It’s about the Outbrain Widget at Triond.
Guess from where does most of the traffic come for my articles at Triond? The fast growing cyan-blue colored bar showing the Top Referring Site points to Outbrain. What’s outbrain? I was curious and went to their site, downloaded their widget (a small piece of code) and inserted it into my blog Fit For Life at Blogger.
What it did was to let viewers rate my blog and recommended a few blogs on related topics posted by those who used a similar widget on their web sites. The links that outbrain had added were of high quality. In a way, it did what I should have done. Providing outgoing links to related topics increases the page rank. I did not have to write the code for collecting user ratings. Since most people shy away from writing comments, this let me get their feedback. The widget was free and easy to install.
More importantly, it increased the traffic as well. Many came from different sites following the widget links like the Magi following the star.
Back at Triond, many of my old articles have been getting more page hits after the outbrain installation. Earlier, the articles would get a few hits for the first few days after publication and then fade away into oblivion. Now they are rediscovered.
You can see the result here for my article on Vitamin D at Triond.
My outbrain is at least four times the next source, which currently is Triond. May be the Outbrain traffic includes that from Triond as well.
What is your experience?
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August 9th, 2009 at 3:33 am
I’ve noticed that it has brought some more traffic. It’s also a different kind of traffic, people who are actually interested in the topic and thus more likely to comment.
I’ve noticed this more on my blog http://originalwavelength.blogspot.com than on Triond articles. Only 10% on my readers come from Triond.
August 9th, 2009 at 4:04 am
I’ll give it a shot.
August 9th, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Interesting! I wasn’t aware of Outbrain but I’ll definitely look into it and most likely give it a try. More traffic is always a nice thing.
August 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Uma, most of my traffic comes from my personal blog http://www.pittsburghflashfictiongazette.com and the next most hits come from Triond. Outbrain is next.
Right now I’m working on being more involved with the Triond community and my personal blog, both of which I can influence the hits. This is on top of coming up constantly with new content for Triond. I find that I don’t have time to do much more.
http://www.writinghood.com/online-writing/my-personal-blog-sent-hundreds-of-hits-to-my-triond-content-in-june/
August 10th, 2009 at 12:21 am
As of today Outbrain is my second highest source of traffic. I have a feeling by next month it will be on top. Yes, it’s been a very big help.
August 10th, 2009 at 8:16 am
oh! thank u. i want to try it
August 10th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Will try it too, thanks.
August 13th, 2009 at 7:29 pm
thanks, I hope I can have time to do this also someday…
August 15th, 2009 at 6:09 am
You don’t have to add the widget at Triond – Triond has already done that for us. You may want to add for any of your personal blogs.
August 31st, 2009 at 12:37 am
Yeah, I’ve wondered about Outbrain. It’s been the top referring site for me for the past few months. Thanks for the info about this.
September 6th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Thanks for some very helpful information!
September 10th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Good Work
Interesting
Best Regards
October 7th, 2009 at 8:12 am
Good analysis… Me too having outbrain in triond list… let me check it
October 13th, 2009 at 4:17 am
That’s an interesting idea!
October 13th, 2009 at 11:51 pm
hmm…I came to your article through outbrain!
it definitely works!
October 21st, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I haven’t gotten outbrain traffic yet, but I think I’m going to try this out.
On the other hand, great article!
October 22nd, 2009 at 8:16 am
I’ll give it a try.
October 29th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Must try this. Thanks for your help!
November 13th, 2009 at 8:04 am
Interesting. But I also noted that the counting is not correct and the more you write the least income you get! There is a problem…
Thanks for sharing your views.
December 9th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Interesting article
December 19th, 2009 at 8:28 am
interesting, very interesting, thanks for sharing
March 3rd, 2010 at 8:06 pm
Hi,
Most of you have assumed you have to install some kind of widget at Triond. You can’t and you don’t need to. Triond has done it, and I am commending it in this article. That’s all. However, if you have hosted your own blog, you may want to try Outbrain.
Uma
April 16th, 2010 at 10:07 pm
Outbrain, I’ll give a try. thanks.
April 17th, 2010 at 11:50 am
I am also going to try out outbrain. No harm at trying. pot shot as u might say. lol meanwhile friends of Triond read my articles on Triond
April 30th, 2010 at 6:05 pm