The Reason to Triond Most Annoying Phenomenon, or Why Two Article with The Same Number of Views Get Different Revenue?
I run into this question in my first week in Triond, and it never stopped interesting me. I notice many people left Triond due to it, and yet it seems no one know why the same amount of views can lead to different revenue. However, I believe I have found the answer to this question!
Before reading this article: If you have ad-Blocks of some kind, please disable them and refresh the page. Why? – keep on reading!
If you are a Triond member like me (if you are not join now! follow this guide and start earning money!), you must have run into this annoying question already: Why some article earn less per views than others?
Just to be clear – I am referring to articles that are publish on the same website, since we all know that Triond’s different website yield different revenue per view.
I am talking about situation where you see something like that:
All 4 articles appear on the same website.
Or even worse, something like that:
Both articles appear on the same website.
And if you want to see something even more annoying just view this picture!
However, as annoying as it is, I figured Triond will not be stupid enough to cheat us like that. So after thinking about it and reading some of Triond’s FAQ (Frequently Asked Question), I came up with a hypothesize:
Since it is all about advertisement – Maybe some of the views are not as profitable as others?
My Experiment
I decided to conduct an experiment. I chose 3 date-relative articles that were published on the same website and that did not get views anymore. I contacted 30 of my real life friends and asked them for help in an experiment I am conducting.
I divided my friends into 3 groups of 10 people:
1. The first group was given a link to the first article and was asked to view it once per day for the next 3 days, with adBlock on(!).
2. The second group was given a link to the 2nd article and was asked to view it once per day for the next 3 days with adBlock off(!), However, they were not allowed to click on ads at all.
3. The third group was given a link to the 3rd article, was asked to view it once per day for the next 3 days with adBlock off, and was ask to report how many ads they clicked on if they decided to clicked on ads, of course.
By the end of those 3 days, I had 30 views on each of the 3 articles. And according to the third group’s report there were 4 clicks on ads (2 people clicks on one ad, and one person clicked twice).
Experiment Results
The revenue was as followed: The first article did not gain any revenue at all, so 30 view were counted as nothing! The second article gain me 1 cent, and the 3rd one gain me 2 cents.
Conclusions
Article views that include no ads impressions (as in when you have adBlock on) gain you no revenue at all! When the person who read your article is expose to some ads – Triond earn something, and so do you. However, if this person actually click some ads – your revenue increases dramatically.
So now I know that many views we get are “wasted” since they are with adBlocks. This is also why stumbleupon is less effective in increasing revenue (since most people that use is also use adBlocks).
In addition, do not forget that adBlocks also blocks AdSence ads. So if you are using AdSence – you are getting fewer impressions.
The challenge now is to find a way to convince people to view your content with adBlocks off.
I hope Now you understand your revenue better, and also why I asked you in the beginning of this article to turn off your adBlock. I know that from now on I will be watching your work with adBlocks off. I hope you will do the same for me.
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February 19th, 2012 at 6:15 am
Once again Triond location of article keep amuse me.
February 19th, 2012 at 6:54 am
yeah , it’s pathetic sometimes. About the adBlocks thing, I have conducted a similar experiment of my own and came to the same conclusion.
February 19th, 2012 at 7:15 am
thanks for sharing
February 19th, 2012 at 8:16 am
interesting
February 19th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
well written
February 19th, 2012 at 10:19 pm
Good one
February 19th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Thanks for doing the research. In its current version, AdSense will allow you to view a report of daily views and revenue for each Triond website you publish on. I’ve thought of correlating this information with the numbers Triond provides, but in my case the revenue involved doesn’t justify the effort required.
February 19th, 2012 at 11:18 pm
yup…yesterday they put my music page into computers LOL ^,^
February 20th, 2012 at 11:51 am
Yes, the millions in revenue are made from the ads, and they are not going to send a few pennies our way if our views don’t generate big bucks for them.
February 21st, 2012 at 12:18 am
A useful experiment you did. Thanks for sharing.
February 23rd, 2012 at 7:09 am
thanks for sharing, a useful info for starters like me..
March 6th, 2012 at 5:43 am
It’s understandable from Triond’s point of view. Their clients, the advertisers, don’t want to pay Triond for article views that don’t include views of their adverts, so why should Triond pass anything on to us for them?
March 6th, 2012 at 7:46 am
Nice share.
March 6th, 2012 at 7:47 am
Good auditing..Thanks.
March 6th, 2012 at 9:36 am
This is most difficult thing to understand.We get different earning on different sites.
March 7th, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Wonderful research. Now we know more about this ‘mystery’
March 15th, 2012 at 3:35 pm
Very interesting and informative observation. Now I have to find out more about the “AdBlock” system.
April 14th, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Yeah true..
But another note is that Triond does not seem to pay for page views coming from our own or other Triond members. May be the pay is so low that anything shows after a 100 views or more.
Some websites create dynamic content such as flash based or javascript based so that adblocks must be turned off to view such content. It is not easy to use adblocks as I tried. The best way to block all ads is to disable javascript in your browser. The browsing feels amazing after that. But some websites like youtube, google search won’t work easy with that.
Once upon a time back in 2007 Triond used to pay an amount fixed per views regardless of quality of traffic (demographics, geographics, sex, income of audience etc.) and source of traffic. In the middle of 2010, Triond changed their revenue sharing model to a very unique one based on complex algorithms that it is not as easy to figure out any more. But those generating unique content and getting genuine traffic are rewarded in a consistent manner. If it appeared that there are discrepancies such as an article earned more than it deserved it would get corrected sooner or later.
June 17th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Thanks for sharing…!!!
June 18th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
I am so glad I found this article, thank you ever so much for sharing this. I do always have the ads on, and wait for them to load, then read the article. The new ones, though, from fastclick, take me away from the article as soon as I click anywhere on the page, annoying! But, still, thank you for this.
July 25th, 2012 at 11:00 am
See my “view” on this at http://webupon.com/marketing/does-triond-operate-by-views-or-clicks-or-both/.