Why Freelance Writers Should Write for Triond
I wasn’t expecting a lot from a new website I heard about called Triond. Then I published a few articles here and learned how fun, easy and potentially profitable it is to write for Triond.
For a while, I’d been hearing about a website for freelance writers called Triond. I didn’t pay much attention to it, because I focused most of my freelance writing efforts on the website Associated Content, because that site offers freelance writers upfront payment for articles.
Then I read an article that mentioned Triond as a potential source of income from freelance writing. Triond doesn’t offer any upfront payment for articles; instead, it gives freelance writers fifty percent of any revenue earned from your content. As I learned more about Triond, and the potential freelance writing income it might provide me, I decided to give this website a chance.
In my experience, Triond really has a lot of potential for freelance writers. I now use Triond in conjunction with Associated Content, to generate freelance writing income. Even though I’ve had a slow start on Triond, as far as earning significant income on the site, I feel I do have the possibility of earning some nice cash here.
Here are some highlights of my freelance writing strategy, and how I plan to earn money on Triond:
I publish all of my articles online as non exclusive, no exceptions. This way I can publish them on a lot of different sites and maximize revenue from one article. I also retain the rights to display my work on a personal website I might create one day, because I only give non exclusive rights.
I submit articles for upfront payment on Associated Content, if they are product reviews, local events, and things that Associated Content is willing to pay for with an upfront offer.
Associated Content doesn’t like to pay upfront for opinion pieces, and things like film television and book reviews, so I publish those types of articles first on Triond. Triond takes first rights to these articles, meaning they are the first to publish it as a unique article and then I am free to place my article on other websites that want content from freelance writers.
After these types of articles are published on Triond, I take them over to Associated Content and publish them as display only (meaning, they have first been published somewhere else.) This way, I earn a share of revenues from the same article on Triond and Associated Content (not a bad way for freelance writers to maximize revenue).
Last month, I saw my performance bonus go up at Associated Content, and I was surprised to have earned a few dollars at Triond too. I was really surprised that one story I wrote for Triond about ABC’s The Bachelor: London Calling earned me a lot of page views. In fact, I earned half as much revenue from that story as I did from the entire monthly performance bonus for all forty stories I had on Associated Content at the time.
That encouraged me to keep up my freelance writing efforts on Triond. My new stories on Triond haven’t performed quite as well as that first one, but it’s just a matter of finding popular subject matter and promoting your articles whenever possible.
If you’re a freelance writer, give Triond a try. I think you’ll be surprised how easy it is to be earning some additional freelance writing income in no time at all (every little bit helps!)
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July 26th, 2008 at 10:30 am
Great idea, but beware of search engine penalty for the same article publishing on different websites. (That’s what I heard)
July 28th, 2008 at 4:07 am
Thanks for sharing your experience
August 14th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Good content, and info!
August 20th, 2008 at 11:24 am
This article is an excellent example of thinking like a writer. Most of us don’t earn enough on any one piece and it pays to look at ways to earn more from the same article.
When I was taking my writing course, I asked my instructor about republishing. She had never tried it. I then read about writers who got paid for reprints. They got paid 5 or 6 times for the same piece making the end result quite lucrative. I thought that was the only way to go.
I just completed a HubPage which points to 9 writing opportunities that pay writers for content: http://hubpages.com/hub/Earn-Money-Writing-Income-Opportunities
which you may find helpful in growing your writing earnings. The Hub also detail 4 places which pay for photos.
Good luck with your writing!
August 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Hey, since you know a lot about writing for websites have you tried to write at EduDeposit.com? If you could give me any feedback it would be great. Thank you for inspiring me!
October 12th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Hi again, Allison,
I was wondering if you had heard anything about Google penalizing people for publishing duplicate content? I just pulled a bunch of articles because I didn’t want to compromise AdSense earnings.
October 15th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Hi Athlyn, I hadn’t heard anything about Google penalizing people for publishing duplicate content. I keep nonexclusive rights for all my articles and republish them on a few sites (right now, those sites are Triond, Associated Content and Xomba.) I took one of my articles that is published on a variety of sites and put it in the google search engine, first using the article title, then my keywords. The article came back in the search results, for all three sites where it’s published. Sometimes I change the title a bit, sometimes not.
I also googled “duplicate content penalty” to see what would come up. I found some results that said Google was trying to debunk the idea that there’s a penalty. I’m not totally sure about it because I’m really new to things like adsense. I also sometimes add links to my published articles on my blog also. I also make sure to put a lot of original content on my blog also, not just links to published work.
Things seem to be working out ok for me, with this strategy, and I haven’t had any problems. I’m actually earning more and more each month, and I do republish my articles, not all of them, but some of them.
Hope this helps! -My best, Allison
November 12th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Interesting article, Allison. I’ve read so many different ideas about whether a writer should republish articles. I value your opinion, so I appreciate your sharing it. I have heard many writers say that you should reword/rework articles that you republish. I’m not sure about that. I can see doing this to improve them, but just to rework them to make them “seem” different seems silly. I’ve just started experimenting a bit with republishing content on Associated Content.