The Reasons Why I’d Rather Write on Triond Than on Associated Content

I’ve always liked to put my thoughts in writing, either by writing fiction and non-fiction, poems, stories, informative articles, etc. Since I was five years old.

So, imagine how gladly surprised I was when I learnt I could write about anything I wished to, publish it on the Internet and get read by other people! And let’s not forget, I get a small economic compensation for it.

Therefore, now it’s been about a year since I write on Associated Content, mainly about comic books and characters, exclusively in English though I can write in Spanish, too, but AC does not accept content in Spanish.

Despite the fact that I got about twenty articles on several subjects, I started to look for other possibilities. Then I found Triond, and I stayed there.

Triond has several advantages over Associated Content:

One of the most attractive features of the AC platform is that they offer an upfront payment for every article, something between 3 to 5 dollars on average. Sadly, the upfront payment option is not available for people living outside the U.S.

The pay for every 1000 page views is USD 1.50 on AC, while on Triond it varies depending on the ads they can post on your article. In my case, it has gone from USD 1.8 to 2.8 per 1000 page views for my articles in English and much less for my articles in Spanish, but, overall, my average pay per 1000 page views is about USD 1.7. Of course, I don’t write about very popular niches, there are plenty of niches with higher ad potential. Anyway, my articles about coin collecting on Triond have paid much more than my articles on Batman The Dark Knight on AC. And I have much more visits on Triond.

On Triond, you can remove and edit your articles anytime. You can also add photos. The good thing about it is, that when you are starting off you may want to change things on your articles. You can do it on Triond, but not on AC.

AC offers three types of licences for your articles, two of them do not allow you to remove the article from AC so you can publish them elsewhere (that happened to me, so I can’t remove my articles from AC to publish them on Triond). Things on Triond are much more simpler, and you can remove your articles anytime.

Triond accepts content written in any language, which is great for me, since I write both in English and in Spanish (in fact, this article was originally published in Spanish). AC only accepts content in English, at least at the moment.

Summing up:

AC’s platform is quite attractive, with lots of options, they offer an upfront payment plus the possibility of writing articles they asked for (Calls for Content) which pay between 10 to 20 dollars each. Sadly, both possibilities are available for US residents only.

Triond is better for the Latin American writer, since you can write in any language you like, although Triond doesn’t offer an upfront payment (that would be great, by the way!).

Regardless which site you decide to write for (though you can write for both), the most important things to remember are:

• Write quality content, about things you like or are knowledgeable about.

• Try to continuously improve your writing, your spelling and your grammar.

• Write having your audience in mind, remember there’s a human on the other side, not a machine. Write for humans, not for Search Engines!

I hope you enjoy the experience of writing and keep on doing it!

My articles mentioned here:

• Let’s collect coins!
• Coin collecting: the basics
• This article in Spanish