One Year Triond: What I’ve Learned

About a year ago, I was playing a game called RuneScape (yes, it sucks) and trying to find a way to get membership for free. I spent some hours googling around, but most of the stuff I found was bere crap. Until I read an article of somebody stating that I could earn my membership online using a website called ‘Triond‘. Curious as I was, I created an account and read a little bit about how the site works. Not really knowing what to publish, I just posted some pictures I had taken on my latest vacation (Rome or France, don’t remember lol). It took me some time to find out that my pictures had to be approved first. Once they were finished, I made some friends clicked them, and I was super-happy when I saw that I had made one dollar cent. Eager for more, I started writing some articles about that game, which earned me some more money. The 15th of Septembet, I got my first payment, a whole 0.64$. It made me proud, even though it was so little money, I did make it all by myself and online.

But now, one year later, I learned a lot. How Triond really works, what articles get lots of views and also, my english improved a bit. I would like to share some of the knowledge I gathered.

The first thing I learned, is that Triond has actually a very specific category of people reading articles. Apparently, they all like articles in the style of ‘10 strange X’ or ‘The 15 weirdest Y ever’. Articles with the title ‘10 websites for ABC’ also get a lot of views. So far, I have written many articles in that style and of which I feel are capable of earning me some bucks, but only one of my articles has ever been a real hit. It was, and still is, titled ‘Six websites for space and aircraft tracking’. One day, it was the second best article, and afterwards it was seventh for about a week, and then died. It’s a very nice article, and has earned me 15,91$ ever since. Since I first started Triond, I have earned 42,23$, so that article earned one third of my total money. I was also very surprised when it started getting a lot of views, because I could see them add up when I just refreshed (in total it has over 10,000 views).

Another thing I learned is that once you’ve got one great article, you can easily remain at the top because people will also click your other articles, expecting something similar. That’s why there are several people, around ten, who continuously have popular articles.

Still, I think Triond is a great and also unique site! It has been a fun year of making mistakes, learning, having people add me as a friend for no reason, people asking me how to write great articles and much, much more!
I love Triond and the way it works, and I’m trying to keep writing articles. I’ve got some great ideas, I just gotta be a little less lazy and maybe, if I’m very lucky, I’l have some more popular articles!