More Triond Tips

Once you’ve been published on Triond, your work begins; that is to police and promote your writing. Every day, if possible, twice a day, log on to Triond and check for “Comments”. You want to be vigilant and protect against SPAM, as well as inappropriate comments. SPAM is one of the most annoying and destructive practices.

Firstly, it detracts from the site. Anyone seeing the advertisement is turned off. A reader might assume your publication is just ‘a front’ for Spam and stop reading. The assumption that the webmaster and/or author of the item supports SPAM.

Readers will not post comments assuming they might wind up on “list” somewhere. SPAM is not the only evil, there are those who take the “comment” opportunity to spew obscenity and invective.

Posts which contain inappropriate language should be deleted as seen. This is because they not only cheapen your site, but dissuade others from commenting. This is NOT a freedom of speech issue. Seeing obscenity or other inappropriate language in a comment to one of your articles suggests the author, (you) has abandoned the site. Hence leaving a comment is a waste of time as the author, (you) is not around to read it.

Delete SPAM and inappropriate comments you see them. As soon as you read the first words, delete it. Every minute it is on your site is a minute readers turn away.

Review “Comments” daily to ascertain if responses have been posted, their nature, and reply to real responses.

By replying, you signify you are interested in the posts of your readers, you are physically contactable, and that your site is alive.

The more comments the better. Where someone disagrees with you a response proves your interest. Sometimes you may defend your point and this may lead to an interesting debate where others respond to the comments and you might be provoked to do a follow up article.

Even if you are posting “Thank you,” the mere appearance of the author is enough to signal to potential commentators that their words will not be typed in vain.

Promoting your Site never stops. When you are published, start sending your work to the various bookmarking sites; Stumbleupon, Digg, Reddit, etc.

After a month, some of these bookmarks “expire”, and you post the link again. Every few months do a complete assessment of your published work, making sure you have linked them to all possible sites and that the links are still active.

Often you will find yourself resubmitting your site to the “bookmarkers” and getting a slurry of new hits. Sometimes an article you have posted months ago suddenly becomes topical. You need to get back to it and promote it. Sometimes your information is out of date and you might want to supply a fix or rewrite and repost it.

Unlike the ancient days of paper permanence, cyberspace is volatile and alive. The moment facts change, you can get over to your article and correct it, so that it remains current. Take advantage of the media. Just being published by Triond is not the end of your involvement, if you want to be successful. Remember the more hits, the more money.?