Increasing Your Triond Views for the Very Lazy
I outline a simple and easy plan for promoting your work published on Triond while probably ending up enjoying and enriching yourself at the same time.
I have read countless articles on the Triond networks saying social networking sites are the best things since sliced bread or that linking to your stuff on a whole bunch of forums is the way to go. Now, I don’t know about everyone else out there, but I have no idea how to use StumbleUpon, Digg, etc., and I’m a busy girl who doesn’t have time to hang about on message boards.
Therefore, I have found a way to give my published content some publicity while doing something utterly uncomplicated that I enjoy: reading! To follow my strategy, you need look no further than the lovely network of Triond sites.
First of all, go to your author profile page and copy the web address. It’s the one that says triond.com/users/yourusernamehere. Now, find a Triond site that is relevant to your interests. If you’re religious, head to Relijournal. Into fiction? Try Authspot. Looking for a laugh? Head to Purple Slinky . It doesn’t really matter which one you pick as long as it has material that you will actually enjoy reading.
Just start reading articles. After you read the article, leave a comment with your url you copied earlier at the end of it. Now, by comment, I’m not talking about a one word blurb like good or cool along with your url. That, my friends, is called spamming. I’m talking leaving your intelligent opinion with honest praise about what you liked in the article, how the information will prove useful to you, and/or some polite constructive criticism. Make it at least a substantial sentence to make your self-promotion worthwhile.
Now I just recently downloaded Mozilla Firefox, and the Triond Toolbar Ad-On for that browser makes this job even easier. It has a lovely little random button that keeps me reading articles and posting my linky for hours on end. Come on people. Can it really get any easier?
Whenever I get comments, I try to find the person’s Triond page and read a few pieces of their work and send them a friendly message asking them if they want be on my friends list, and I’ve had others do the same when I’ve commented their work. Posting a link to your page makes it even easier for them since searching names is annoying.
Come on, Triond-ers. We are a community, and if we stick together and help each other out, we can all do well! And who knows… You might just learn something along the way. Good luck!
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July 28th, 2008 at 4:08 am
Namate well done.
July 28th, 2008 at 4:59 am
i love it. you gave me an idea. i’ll try it. hehe. can we be friends?
July 28th, 2008 at 9:39 am
Very interesting, I’ll try that some time.
July 29th, 2008 at 1:20 am
It works, 100% of times. You have kool brains.
August 1st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Im a proof of what this young lady is saying. She recently commented on one of my articles. Her comment got me intrested in looking her name up, got to her profile, read few of her articles (like this one),added her as a friend!! Autumnrose, you go!
I’ve had no real luck on stumble or digg, and like you, i too find them very time consuming. I write on triond more for my own satisfaction and some appreciation of my work rather than the money, so just a good set of friends on triond keeps me satisfied.
Totally concur what you said about spamming and do not like it when people just add you for the sake of adding, if you have interest in the other persons articles, then its some point having them on your friends list.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 am
Great I’ll try it thnx for the advice =]
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
nice and interesting post,thanks young lady,keep it up!
August 4th, 2008 at 9:31 am
omegosh! this is sooooo true. I find it a little difficult to see some really constructive comments sometimes so i guess it’s true afterall, honesty is important. You said it all the way and that rocks!
A little busy this week to have a new post up…XD I don’t care~ I’m gonna continue writing~ Whoaaaaaa~~~
August 6th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Wise words, I feel it a little rude to promote myself on the comments area but can now see it might pay to take onboard wise words from one so young! Great read thanks.
August 8th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
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August 11th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Thanks. These are great tips. I’m new to Triond (only a single article) and am just trying to figure out how it works.
August 24th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Yeah I agree with you about the not having time to promote. Not only that I don’t really know how to use StumbleUpon or Digg, I use Myspace alot but it doesn’t really help. I spend alot of time browsing articles but also find that to be time consuming as well since I don’t get much time on the internet. I however, love your article and find that the information provided will be very useful if I ever get a chance to be online more than I am now. Thank you.
September 12th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
im new to the service and the advice u just gave im sure is going to work so thanks for the good advice!
October 3rd, 2008 at 4:29 am
Woooh!
brilliant tip!
gracias senorita! (just started learning spanish..trying to show off a little :s
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October 13th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Nicely done haha, I have written about this very thing but the link is ingenius try putting it within href=”https://www.triond.com/users/Routledge”>Please be my friend!
October 13th, 2008 at 11:52 am
dang, HTML is disabled:(
October 13th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Thanks for all the lovely comments!
January 27th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
I enjoyed your article. I am new to triond and I am trying to get a feel for how it works. I also would like to make a little money on the side. thanks for the great article. I have no friends yet. Would you like to be my friend?