So You Want to Make The “Hot List”?

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So You Want to Make The “Hot List”?

Posted on August 28th, 2009 in Online Writing by Mnofdichotomy

Not as hard as you might think…

This is basically the fourth and final installment of my Triond help series. The first three were rather well received and, based on the comments, helpful.

Part 1

My “Secrets” to Making Money and Publishing in Forums

Part 2

A Guide to The Triond Forum

Part 3

Writing for Money: Selling Our Souls?

So here’s how to basically land a guest spot…

Submit your article shortly before midnight, U.S. Central Standard time. That equals early morning in Israel, where Triond is located. They seem to do the majority of their publishing first thing in the morning. The majority of the writers here are in North America, and there is far less traffic at that time, being that most of us are in bed. Therefore it takes far fewer hits to land you there. I’ve done it with as few as 40.
For some reason, it’s nearly impossible to get to the list if you don’t do it right away. I wrote a tribute to Walter Cronkite about a two weeks before he died (figured I’d beat everyone to the punch). It puttered along until he did pass, and when he did, it ripped off 800 hits in a few hours. Didn’t make the list. So you’ll want to keep tabs, and try to promote as soon as it publishes. Once it does, use all of the sites on your bookmarking page. Do them all at once. Drop it off in a few topic related forums (see part 1) and sit back and wait.
Don’t publish a piece of garbage – no amount of tricks will help if your article sucks.
Research your keywords.
Publish your article under the heading of poetry; you’ll make far less money, but they seem to publish rather quickly.
Make sure the hot list is working – often times it will freeze for hours or even days on end. If this happens, you’re out of luck. Realize they normally update the list several times a day, so if you publish then, you’ll be out of luck.
Check often… your stay may only last a few hours.

Once you’ve made it and gotten over the initial thrill, you’ll want to get back to writing. It gets old quick, and you’ll be ready to take the next step and shoot for the genuinely big numbers. Hope this does it. Good luck and good writing!

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29 Responses to “So You Want to Make The “Hot List”?”

Lucas Dié
August 28th, 2009 at 3:04 am

you might want to do more research on that one

for one, hits have absolutely nothing to do with it, my last hot content got there with 0 hits (that’s zero as in nil).

the time of your submittal is also a coincidence; my hot contents were submitted all through the spectrum of the watch over the last year.

back to the drawing board?

doesn’t mean that your articles aren’t helpful and well written, they are always both, and I think that is much more of a reason to have them in the hot contents
raman13
August 28th, 2009 at 3:06 am

Good Work

Interesting

Best Regards
Melody Arcamo Lagrimas
August 28th, 2009 at 3:13 am

I experienced being on the hot list (top 10) for the first time in September last year with my article, Five Ways to keep Those Ideas Flowing. Then t was followed a few days later with another writing article. A few months after, one of my poems got in the top 10 again. And my three last Healthmad articles were all on the hot list – one even got to the number 1 spot.
Atikin
August 28th, 2009 at 4:33 am

Yeah, I do agree with you that staying on the hot list for a couple of hours does increase views but not to an extent that really shoots you up in views so these tips to make proper sense. But there’s one thing – if you have more friends online at the moment and they see your work and comment , it really pelts you upwards.
I had 3 of my articles go on the hot content list on 3 days consecutively and they lasted a while but they weren’t sufficient enough to get me massive 4 digit hits.

Good tips here for anyone who wants to be up there or any one who has in the past and wants to again. I like your humorous style too..the odd hilarity just made this article more interesting.

Good job!
And remember everyone, keep writing and keep commenting – that should get you more views!
fishfry aka Elizabeth Figueroa
August 28th, 2009 at 8:58 am

You seem to have this all under control, I will take your advice because it sound and seems to be so easy to do, and you seem quite happy as well.
Thanx
AppleDuck
August 28th, 2009 at 10:52 am

This seems to have helped, I will try it with one of my next articles (:
Thisisavril x
alc
August 28th, 2009 at 11:15 am

Thanks for the info!
Marie Milton
August 28th, 2009 at 11:38 am

Excellent Info Mnof. But I wonder how you managed to figure all this out?????
But don’t get me wrong…it’s great!!!
Mnofdichotomy
August 28th, 2009 at 11:40 am

experimentation. lots of it.
sandie
August 28th, 2009 at 1:12 pm

I will probably be in bed myself by then, thanks for sharing.
A.L.Smith
August 28th, 2009 at 1:26 pm

Great info, thank you.
QuinMonty86
August 28th, 2009 at 4:35 pm

I have made the hot list with very few hits. I have come to the conclusion that it has everything to do with the key words that are in the article. I once wrote an ariticle and included almost every one of the words on the hot topic list, and yes I was on the hot list. That article had perhaps 8 hits.
Granted it was a good article and not crap, but it was totally made up. I do very little writing on Triond anymore due to the unfairness of the rating system. And the general crap that does make it onto the “hot list”. Being on the hot list means nothing in my opinion.
ceegirl
August 28th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

thanks for the info.
Joe Dorish
August 28th, 2009 at 6:56 pm

Have made the Hot Content list many times and the top spot at least 4 times. One of the biggest misconceptions about Triond is that being on the list generates tons of views for you. It does not. It’s great to make the list but it just doesn’t generate that many views for you.

Triond must have changed the way they generate the list because it used to take about 1,000 views just to make the list and at least 5,000 to make the top spot for me but that is not true lately.
gourab
August 28th, 2009 at 8:57 pm

Nice article. Unlike something I would have written, yours actually has this really good strategy. I absolutely loved it. I will share this for sure.
KitKat93
August 28th, 2009 at 9:21 pm

for good articel, full of good information thanks
Storm Jackson
August 28th, 2009 at 11:01 pm

They’ve definitely changed the way you make hot list, because I made the hot list this week and didn’t even have 100 views on the article. So it is not 1,000 views for a hot content piece now.
MySoldiersSweetheart
August 28th, 2009 at 11:02 pm

My brain dont work like that… I just submit when I got something to say. Eh!! Thanks for the info
Payge
August 28th, 2009 at 11:22 pm

I made hot content twice and had to be told by a triond members because I didnt know it. Diidnt get me to many more views then I normally get .Personally,Id rather stay off it and have fun just writing. Great article and very informative.
Avaxier
August 28th, 2009 at 11:43 pm

Indeed, by staying in Hot Content, you’ll get more views than usual.

But the site where you published them will affect it too. One of my article has become popular for the last 5 days on Computersight but the total views still 21.

On the other hand, being on popular article on Gameolosophy or Webupon will give around 70-100 views per day.

Thanks for sharing!
Patrick Bernauw
August 29th, 2009 at 1:25 am

Interesting article, but the Hot Content List only shows part of the picture. My most successful article (an average of 300 views per day, since October last year) was one of the first I published with Triond, on PurpleSlinky. It started with more than 300 views in 24 hours, never made it into the Hot Content List, wasn’t socially bookmarked and didn’t get many views from Triond fans too…
Anne Lyken Garner
August 29th, 2009 at 3:05 am

Your tips are fine, but older Trionders may have a lot more to say. I wouldn’t do it here because I’m very ill at the moment, but suffice to say that there is really no ‘ideal’ to making the list anymore.

In the past you used to have to have at least 3,000 views to make it to the list, then about 5,000 views each day to stay there. We used to do it too. It made you feel good to make the list back then. Then they changed it…

Soon badly written jokes were in the top ten, then articles with grammatical mistakes etc.

Fine article.
ducroisjosef
August 29th, 2009 at 5:06 am

Great info. Thanks.
Karen Gross
August 29th, 2009 at 7:11 am

Triond is extremely addicting – when I had one article on the hot list, I tried to copy the formula, but never duplicated that sucess. The hot users list has been a source of grief to me – I see names on there of new users with only a couple of bad poems to their credit, but -alas – my name is never there.

Giving us graphs on the dashboard has been a new source of frustration – when the line is going down – I think: must write – can’t think…topic…got nothing,.. help – line careening down more…must post…. aw! Forget it!
Jamie Myles
August 29th, 2009 at 7:59 am

great tips/Thanks for this post. I like it.
Southgate
August 29th, 2009 at 10:38 am

As I observed, even an unworthy article finds a place in the hot list and they update it on the basis of the number of comments and the like its received by your articles.I saw an author posted comments simply with ‘A’ ‘B’ and so on so as to increase the number of comments for his article and the article managed to find a place in the Hot List ! Beware of Hot List articles, all of them may not be worthy to be there.People are playing so many tricks, to increase the number of clicks , comments and the like it and to find a place in the Hot List !
xcal
August 30th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

hey nice article…hope it helps…your other articles are pretty good too…great writing
rea.rae13
August 30th, 2009 at 7:58 pm

Thanks bunch for sending me this. It’ll take it in to account the next I Write.
rizzei
September 15th, 2009 at 5:46 am

yeah this helps a lot..thanks for sharing posts like these..:)