My Triond Writing Stats
Two years worth of stats.
For almost two years now I’ve written and published articles at Triond but with many gaps in between. In total I’ve published 45 articles and have a grand total of 39,308 views. So my articles have averaged 874 views each. But that is a very misleading number because one of my articles, Baseball’s All Time Greatest Teams, has done 24,221 views by itself. It was submitted to Digg by someone I do not know and it received almost 300 Diggs there. So 60% of my views are from just one article and I believe if you write for Triond you will find the same basic thing happening.
Most of your views will come from a small handful of articles that take off in some way or another. Someone might find your article and Digg it and it takes off there and then your views go through the roof. Or a popular blogger or website owner might like your article and promote your link through his or her website. This happened to me with another of my articles, Bill Parcells owes Bill Belichick, when a popular New England Patriots fan blogger promoted this article to his blog readers. This article has done 2,186 views for me.
Recently someone picked up another of my articles, Edgar Martinez’s Hall of Fame Chances, and this article has done 118 page views for me so far in January and has done 1,436 total views for me. That’s my second best January total behind Baseball’s All Time Greatest Teams which just keeps plugging along and has done 156 views for me this month.
Here is a list of my best viewed articles (over 1,000 views) and you can see they all have something in common.
- Baseball’s All Time Greatest Teams – 24,221
- Bill Parcells Owes Bill Belichick – 2,186
- Why John Elway is the Greatest QB of All Time – 1,858
- Sell the Gold Reserves – 1,817
- NFL Draft Wr’s – 1,575
- Edgar Martinez’s Hall of Fame Chances – 1,436
Did you notice what they all had in common? Take another look and look closer and you will see. If you fashion your articles in certain ways they will do much better. In total these 6 articles have done 33,093 views. My overall total views is 39,038 so these 6 articles have done 85% of my views and they are just 13% of my overall total articles. Believe me I have plenty of articles which have done very few views.
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January 28th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
I was never able to comment many of your articles because I don’t have a clue about baseball, haha… So I take this opportunity to do it. Thanks for sharing your stats, it’s good to know how this system works for each of us. I’m new here but glad to see that I’m not doing so bad since I have some articles with more than 100 views in less than a month…
January 28th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
100 views per month per article will make you rich over time Maria!
February 8th, 2009 at 2:26 am
Very good article. I am new to Triond and was wondering how some of the other more established writers have done. Nice read.
February 11th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Hi, ok…you did a bubnch of views, congratulations!.but which is the average CTR of the ads on these articles? I mean …how much did they pay you for all these views?
February 12th, 2009 at 7:20 am
Multiply the views by .002 and that’s about what I’ve made. But lately the pay here has really dropped probably due to the bad economy and cutbacks on internet advertising fees.
February 12th, 2009 at 7:25 am
The pay really depends on what you write about. If you write about Mesothelioma you’ll make more than .002 per article but .002 is what I have averaged so far but not lately as almost everything earns less it seems these days. I do have articles that have earned me over .003 and some less than .002 but that’s my average.
February 18th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Joe, Thanks for sharing such useful information. I too have few of my articles earning consistent views regularly, I don’t know from where. My biggest one ever is with a total of 3560 views and keeps counting. I couldn’t put the link here now. I will give it later.
I will check out what all these articles have in common. We may not write only such articles, but atleast we can maximize such articles’ count. That will do a great help. Thanks.
February 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Over time all my articles that keep getting views are the ones that people I don’t know have linked to.
March 15th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
@Joe Dorish,
I couldn’t have agreed more with you.. It is the Pareto principle that applies to all walks of our life. It says 80% of results come form 20% of our actions. Rest of 80% actions give lesser useful results.
It is natural to do like this. That is how statistically things happen. That does not mean that those articles which performed best have something that we need to put in others as well.
And all this is the result of just writing alone on our part. No action from us as to market it or advertise it in anyway.
Now there are several techniques that can be applied cleverly and make the most out of this marketing. That gives it a professional edge rather than just being statistical. That is when we achieve 80% of results from 80% of our articles because we also put effort in marketing our articles. We need to work more on marketing. Only thing that constrains is the poor earnings per view that Triond articles give today. Now we need to play several tricks for that.