My Experiences with Triond
I have been with Triond since 2008. In this period of time, I have seen Triond undergo a number of changes, both good and bad.
When I first joined Triond, they were paying quite well per page view. In a test that I carried out, I posted similar articles at Triond, Associated Content and Helium. Triond came out first in terms of earnings, followed by Associated Content.
I have also had an article go viral before, a short humorous piece, 10 Reasons Why Every Home Should Have A Cat, which got picked up by bookmarking sites and pet forums, resulting in the article garnering a few thousand page views per month for some time.
Things have changed since then, and my earnings per article at Triond have been slowly dropping, which Helium has overhauled their site, resulting in Helium leapfrogging to first place in terms of earnings among the three sites, while Triond has dropped to last.
Triond has of course not been sitting back and doing nothing all this time, although it did seem as though what was being done was not enough for it to keep abreast of the competition.
There was the introduction of the forum, and implementation of new features like image suggestions and the online editor. Changes were made to the dashboard so that it was now easier to check your total page views and where your hits were coming from. Plus a number of other changes.
However, despite these changes, my earnings at Triond continued to drop. AT least, until Triond implemented Google Adsense integration.
Now at last, my combined earnings from Triond and Google Adsense put it back on par with other sites in terms of earnings.
Still, while Triond has at last managed to regain lost ground, I expect it to continue to face stiff competition, both from established sites, and newer sites like Bukisa. Which means that Triond will have to keep finding ways to improve. (Although until Bukisa changes that tacky writing that looks like a script written for an infocommerical on their site, I’m still going to put my money on Triond being a better site for writers.)
Triond does have different objectives compared to other writing sites in general. From what I have gleaned from transcripts of past interviews, Triond was started to be a collection of blogs, with blog posts being written by numerous people. As far as I can tell, Triond is the only writing site with this model. I have no idea if this will somehow impede Triond’s growth in the future, or Triond management will be able to leverage on it and use this to Triond’s advantage . Only time will tell.
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February 1st, 2010 at 6:58 am
Good Stuff
Keep the good work on
February 1st, 2010 at 4:07 pm
Just curious, if you think Triond seems like a collection of blogs, what kind of writing are you looking for on here? I find the only items that get lots of views are the info articles. I would rather post creative writing but find they don’t get the views.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:40 am
I’m not saying that Triond seems like a collection of blogs. If you read past interviews done by Triond’s creators, Triond was started to be a sort of collection of blogs, written by numerous people. That is what I am referring to in the last paragraph of my article. As far as I can tell, they are still using this model. Which means that Triond *is* a collection of blogs.
If you take conventional blog wisdom and apply it to Triond, in theory, a site like Authspot specialising in creative writing should be able to build up blog followers, provided there are consistent blog posts. Which I think isn’t a problem for Authspot.
Of course, conventional blogs don’t have thousands of writers, all with different standards and different styles of writing, writing a few hundred blog posts every day. There are blogs out there which are written by small groups of people, but in addition to them being small in size, these group blog writers also tend to share a common background, and the writing is not as diverse as one would find on one of Triond’s blogs.
In this respect, Triond is very different from a conventional blog, and I would also expect the rules to be different. I do have ideas on what might work on Triond, but they are only ideas, and until I do test them out, I have no way to say for sure if they do work.
February 7th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Yes, I noticed the Triond earnings going down – until the adsense addition. It still isn’t really the same tho – as it is two different revenue streams effectively!
A good read. I have really enjoyed my time on Triond and hope they can keep their (corporate) head above water!
March 15th, 2010 at 9:19 pm
Thanks, I’m fairly new to Triond and didn’t realize the collection of blogs focus, but I see it now that you say so. Not sure what the focus is now, but I’m giving it a roll and hoping it will come through for me as my articles get established. Thanks-
April 27th, 2010 at 5:50 am
Always useful to get perspective from someone that has been here longer than I… Thank you for the article! I was most interested by the news about the earnings dropping (shame!), I hope they will figure out a way of increasing them again.
July 14th, 2010 at 11:54 am
Thnaks again, still piddling along here.