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How to Write a Successful Article on Triond

Posted on September 19th, 2009 in Online Writing by Mnofdichotomy

How I do it.

I’ve written a half dozen help articles on triond to date, mostly focused on the various act of promoting. None have been commercial successes, or made me much in the way of earnings (even by Triond measurements… the most I’ve made off of one was just over $5.00). But I enjoyed writing them, and have recieved thanks from several dozen users who have used what I have learned to both find viewers, and in several cases find their way to the hot content list. I had figured I was done with them, for several reasons. First, there wasn’t anything else to write. Virtually everything I know about publishing here and promoting outside of Triond is now in article form… I even made one final article combining the rest so they would all be in one place. That way, when someone pmd me asking how to do it, I could just send them one link.

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Yet I have continued to get a dozen or two questions a day… everything from “How do you promote a runescape article” to “how do I use keywords?” and today I recieved this. “So I will add one last piece, this one Triond Specific. This is, step by step, from thought to promoting, how I write an article for Triond.

1. First off, asking “where do you get the ideas for your articles” is a dumb question to ask of any writer. I can’t give a specific answer; if you look back through what I’ve published, I have written about everything. politics, sports, video games, life experiences, movies. It amounts to this… if i come across something I have an opinion on, or just feel like writing about, I do. If I don’t think it sucks, I publish it. (and for every one you see here, there are 4 more in the trash.) I don’t recommend this for many…. I’m scizo enough that it works for me.

2. Once I have an article written, I try to classify it. I classify my articles one of three ways.

a. ‘Whores‘ These I write for the sake of getting as many views as possible.

( Guaranteed Picks for NFL Week Two )

b. ‘Informers‘ This is one of these… articles meant to share knowledge. These aren’t always writing articles.

( Support Our Troops: Sounds Great – Here are Some Ways to Actually Do It )

c. ‘My Articles‘ These are articles I write that are personal to me, or something I just feel like doing.

( A Daddy’s Love at The Ballpark )

( Magic: Through the Eyes of a Three-Year-Old )

I do this basically because what the article is determines what I will do with it. I throw the book at a’s, because as I said I want as many views as possible. The example given has been on the hc list for days, and the views are well into five figures. The b’s I promote moderately… this one has a few hundred views. The c’s I really don’t promote at all, because I write these for me. The first one has 24 views, the second a couple hundred.

Now that I know the purpose of my article, and what I plan to do with it, I proof it (always use spell check) read it through to check content, grammar, and spelling, and publish it. (remember your keywords! These are the way people find your article!)

3. If it’s a c, the journey ends here. I do the major bookmarks (digg, stumble, twitter, etc.) and call it a day.

4. If it’s a b or an a, and requires promotion, I use the time waiting for it to publish to plan. First, How much promotion does it need? Some, like this ( Rapper Eminem Dead at Age 36 ) don’t need much. It had a thousand views in an hour. Others, like the NFL picks above, I spend several hours promoting in forums. Whatever you’ve written about, research. Whatever the subject, there will be forums. (make sure you do it correctly… How to Market Your Articles in Forums and Chat Rooms ) Try to be signed up and ready by the time it publishes.

5. If it’s an a, it’s important to promote as soon as possible after it publishes. I try to make a quick splash. Not sure if that’s necessary, but it’s how I do it.

That’s it. And it works. I follow these exact steps, and when I promote an article, it sells, and nearly always lands on the hc list. No real secrets, other than the ones in the Triond articles.

Lastly, a few rules I follow…

I only write what I know. I would never write an article on British Soccer, or Norwegian food, because I don’t know a thing about it.
If I get into an article and it isn’t fun, or becomes tedious, it goes in the trash. Even successful writers here don’t make all that much money. If it isn’t fun, what’s the point?
I don’t spam articles here if it’s an a or a c. I did pm the Triond help articles to everyone on my friends list (3,000+… it took days. If there’s a lightbulb going off above your head, turn it off. Out of 3,000 pms, I got a total of maybe 50 views. It isn’t even close to the effort it took from a numbers point of view) i don’t send the others. You shouldn’t either.

That’ll do it; last of the Triond ‘how to’s’ for me. If anyone has any more questions for me, read this.

Successful Online Writing: How to Find Thousands of Views (and Still Write What You Want)

If the answer isnt there, I probably dont know it. Once more, Good Luck.

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10 Responses to “How to Write a Successful Article on Triond”

fishfry aka Elizabeth Figueroa
September 19th, 2009 at 6:47 am

Interesting article, I live your order of a b and c.
then there is always the trash,
I agree if you don’t enjoy writing something trash it, since it will land in the trash anyway.
I still need to work on my grammar etc. I do use spell check, but it really is good for helping me get my point across.
Oh Well
Awesome article be well
Mr Ghaz
September 19th, 2009 at 7:39 am

Excellent!..this was useful for me and others as well..You’re really good and creative writer my friend..Well done! congratulation for your success.
welch
September 19th, 2009 at 11:04 am

Thanks, Great Information, I like!
Tlchimes
September 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

Since I don’t like ANYTHING I write I can’t trash much and just force folks to find the good in my bad…. Lucky there are enough good to keep a few coming back.

Great read…. as always.
littlekid137
September 19th, 2009 at 10:51 pm

Very nice work. I agree with all the points you made about writing about things you know. Writing an article that you are not familiar with will equal trash.
Tom Ware
September 20th, 2009 at 4:30 am

Hi,

Your article contained quite a bit of valuable information. It was the first thing I picked out when I came into the site for the first time for, like so many, I’m into Creative Writing- have been for over forty years.

I know most writers abhor criticism so we’ll call this ‘evaluation,’ eh? Take a little more care in the grammar and avoid jargon wherever you can. I don’t know what a PMD is, and and your “i’ (first person singular) should be shown as a capital) Also, avoid that terrible ‘fill in word’ “basically.” It’s generally not required.

Hope this doesn’t sound hyper-critical. You have presented good material in a commonsense, well layed out way.

One hint in getting it right: Read it out aloud as if reading to an audience, with all the appropriate pauses, etc.. If it sounds right, it usually is.

Good luck in your writing.

Tom Ware
Sydney, Australia.
Atikin
September 20th, 2009 at 4:51 am

You give some valuable advice every single time and you are bang on the money again. I do agree with littlekid137 though. Write about what you like and what you think the audience will like. I wrote an article on topics worth writing on Triond quite recently so maybe that’s one to take a look at.
R J Evans
September 21st, 2009 at 4:31 pm

Yeah – some useful information here and a lot with which I agree.

Firstly – many people think that a living can be made writing on Triond. Although I have never tried it – I have done the math and realised that I can’t match my real world pay – even if I was to devote all my time to it.

It may be that I get paid too much in the real world but more likely the fact that the online world is – like a whore – very difficult to keep up with, capricious, generally thirsty and unforgiving of bad wine – and even when you get the upper hand (or so you think) the opposite is true.

Not that my experience of whores is unlimited….

Many think that I make my living writing online – Mnofdichotomy I loved your own description of me on Triond as one of the ‘big dogs’. I have hoped that you meant ‘top’ but – hey.

I would – perhaps I could – go from my real world career to an online one. Howver. this big dog is shaky about doing that. Why go from a guaranteed income to one that is shaky – possibly in the extreme.

My best month on Triond was when I earned 25% of what I earn in the real world…. but do I will not stop doing it, of course!

Oh – and that was mostly from an article that I thought would appeal to about ten Russian people living in the past!!

Ramble!

Off!
R J Evans
September 21st, 2009 at 4:35 pm

Just read through the other comments – love those from Tom Ware.

Show us your ‘wares’, Tom! Think you can do better?

Basically, (!) I doubt it.

FFS!
C Jordan
September 22nd, 2009 at 9:59 am

An interesting read with some good advice. With reference to promoting articles – it is no use putting articles on sites that get a lot of visitors, where people are not interested in them. If you write about a subject , then as you say, do the homework and find the places where people do want to read about that subject.
Good article.