Triond: Has a Bad Reputation Led to Less Page Views?
Gone are the days of thousands of page views in just a matter of hours. Gone are the days of a community feel. Gone are the days of quality writing on Triond. It’s this last point that I would like to illustrate as being the main contributor to significantly less page views than Triond writers were used to a little over a year ago.
In April of 2008 it seemed that Triond was the next big thing in Internet content writing. A small group of writers strived to put out quality articles on important topics providing surfers of the net with valuable insights and information. After working hard for hours at a time on specific pieces, you could hope to be rewarded with thousands of page views in just hours. In September of 2009, this is no longer the case. The reason why: a bad reputation.
Triond has become so blasé in its editing that almost anything is published, (it would be ironic if this was not published), with very little regard to the simple acts of spelling, grammar and punctuation. Anyone of any age and that speaks any language is able to sign up to be a Triond “writer” which is fantastic but would be much better if editing of content was taken seriously by the Triond editorial team.
As a result of this, people who frequent popular social book-marking sites have become aware of Triond’s affiliated sites and are now dismissing them as being of poor quality stemming back to of course…you guessed it, anything and everything being published; hence a bad reputation. So instead of receiving, lets say for example one thousand views, you only receive one hundred.
This of course, ladies and gentlemen, is why we have so much rubbish making the “hot content” list and pieces like my last to make it receiving the esteemed accolade with only seventeen views.
Here’s how to bump up page views and earnings for all concerned: employ more editors to cope with the amount of “writers” Triond now “employs”.
Luckily for me and a number of others, we’re only here to write.
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September 29th, 2009 at 1:05 am
The actual “editing” of articles does seem to have disappeared.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:06 am
well said, that is the sentiments of many of us. but just as you say, I am here also just to write. Though I miss being in the Hot List,
September 29th, 2009 at 1:29 am
It does suck.
September 29th, 2009 at 2:10 am
Very true. I do find that publishing on Triond is quite simple. On the bright side, it has attracted many other publishers.
From my point of view, you could argue this both ways.
September 29th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Now that’s write! Funny, I stopped striving long ago – I write now what inspires me and I feel a lot more relaxed and happy. I actually have never made more than $2 until just this month, and whacko! My earning currently stand at $2.45!
I guess you were real lucky RJ – you discovered Tri way before the rest of us. Anyway, I’m happy, content and a little surprised Drew Dilligence is back!
RJ keep writing your quality stuff, man. It’s the stuff of dreams. God Bless You . j
September 29th, 2009 at 2:30 am
@ James, not sure its the stuff of dreams mate! haha.
September 29th, 2009 at 4:34 am
Hope things will be better.
September 29th, 2009 at 5:49 am
I do wish they did better editing on this site. I would not mind at all if they threw back my typos so I could correct them before they were published.
Though I also think using this site as a starting point and improving your writing helps as well.
I do think Triond has a great community feel to it.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:06 am
I agree. I’ve also noticed that some of the editing is really, really poor. Some titles have colons and punctuations moved to places that make no sense. I’ve had titles such as “Playstation Three: Five Games To Own” changed to “Five Playstation: Three Games To Own”. It completely changes the whole meaning of the title, or makes it entirely nonsensical. I’ve also noticed that Triond seem to have given up on refusing pretty much any content. I’ve noticed more than one article here that seems to be written by some sort of article software. We all know the ones that start like “Make interesting points does spine remedy for pain.” It appears as though some articles don’t even get read. This feeling is reinforced when I see some of my articles getting published within 60 seconds. Reading them should take longer than that and that does not even incorporate the time it should take to add them to the correct site.
Great article though, as I always expect from you, RJ.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Good point. I just hate to think what type of writer people view me as and if I am what you consider ‘rubbish’
October 1st, 2009 at 4:55 am
Thanks for expressing your honest views.I like it.Thanks for sharing.
October 1st, 2009 at 7:19 pm
I strongly believe this, too. I’ve seen articles on here that were absolutely wretched and shouldn’t have made it past even the most lax editing process. An article I wrote last night could not possibly have been read, since it was approved within 30 seconds of me sending it.
Given the poor quality of the editing here, I wouldn’t want them messing with my writing at all. I’d rather they just reject it. I’m coming to think that I am a better editor/writer than a lot of the people who are supposedly checking my articles, and they would be more likely to screw my stuff up. I’ve read more than one account of them doing just that to other people’s work and it would really piss me off.
I understand where Triond is coming from. They don’t care if articles are good or bad. If a crap writer gets 20 friends on facebook to read his crap articles, Triond still gets paid regardless. But it is short-sighted and eventually, Triond will be ruined by this.
I’m very new to all this, but I feel that I’m a decent amateur writer. Triond as it stands is just practice. Once I get my feet wet, I’ll go find a similar site which has higher standards (and pay). Anything that gets rejected there will go to Triond. I’m sure most halfway decent writers will do the same. We all like to write just for the sake of writing, but why not get as much as we can for doing so?
I think what Triond should do is:
1. Keep the current structure so that they make max income, but have an upper tier of websites where only quality articles can be posted.
2. Hire editors on the cheap from the ranks of the better writers, since we have no shortage of writers here.
Good article though. I’m 100% with you. Wish I’d found this site a year ago
October 1st, 2009 at 10:34 pm
I have read articles from old Triond writers (One I remember is Chan Lee Peng’s) who decry lesser page views now.
I joined Triond just a year back, and I seem to be getting more page views now than I did a year back. I have one guess why page views have dipped (comparatively speaking) for the old writers. Earlier there were less users, and they were using articles/comments as a kind of forum. Each of the old articles had multiple comments by the same person, and the author would personally reply each of the queries and these replies would be acknowledged once again. Many of the old Triond writers may have gone to greener pastures, and some of the old writers still here never bothered to befriend new writers, banding them all in one big lump as “bad writers”. I know some of the writing is poor. Agreed.
October 5th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I’ve always found Triond editors are quick to respond to questions but it would be to good benefit if stricter content guidelines were in place. Better quality articles might draw a greater readership.
I know for myself, I never finish reading any article that is written in broken English or one riddled with typos.
Not that any of us turns out perfect articles but quality content attracts serious readers and possibly advertisers who are willing to purchase better advertising.
October 6th, 2009 at 12:05 am
I agree with RJ’s observation. I believe though that we should always make sure we write and submit our best whenever possible. Anyway, Triond has a fix button to fix things we want to correct in our articles. My articles serve other purposes aside from earning. It serves as catharsis for me to freely express ideas in my head, my students use my articles as resource materials, those articles find their way in my website and enhances its content, and I develop my skills in writing.
I started writing in the early months of 2008, stopped in October of that year, then resumed in July this year. I noticed there are articles that are read more if links are e-mailed or if it is relevant to the times. Nowadays, I had better page views than a year ago but not earning that much. The number of articles do matter, however. If you want to earn more, you have to write more. But of course, quality matters.
October 6th, 2009 at 12:09 am
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October 10th, 2009 at 1:18 am
Amen, Sir!
October 10th, 2009 at 7:57 pm
I agree that Triond needs to implement higher standards. I think it won’t have staying power if it allows the few quality articles to be weighted down in a mountain of poop, and that does seem to be the case, unfortunately. I want to be optimistic, but Triond really does need to look at what just publishing anything from anyone is doing to its reputation.
October 26th, 2009 at 6:28 am
i really don’t know what’s happening with this site, i just go wih the plow, well, at least i made more friends! that’s the important! nice topic!
November 17th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Nice article.
November 22nd, 2009 at 8:04 am
RJ:
A terrific article with one exception. Quality writing has deteriortated almost universally. The big $BUCK$ have replaced quality on a number of formally excellent sites. Now you see articles fed with sleezy, attention-grabbing titles followed by incompetent, inept writing having little, if anything, to do with the title. Yet, the hits abound. Thusly, it\’s difficult to locate a feasible reason for the decline in quality. Perhaps folks like me are too pompous and arrogant in the assessment of writing. Maybe we should join the crowd and follow the money. I think not! I\’m currently working on my 19th and 20th book. Believe me, I\’m not tooting my horn in this crowd. I just think I\’ll stick with writing books instead on this nonsense. Lastly, I remember attending a lecture by John Steinbeck years ago. He said, \”All I really have is my love of writing and my integrity.\” Thanks for reminding me with your great article RJ and the other great comments.
Dr. John Rahrer
November 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I guess, even if with the bad reputation, if a reader does reads a good quality article, that reader will definitely comment or share. I can say let’s just keep our writing skills up, make extra efforts on proofreading on our own works. And yes, we are here to “write”.
Nice Article.
September 7th, 2010 at 5:36 am
Agreed. I’d love to know how you get “hundreds” of views however. Not just stories and poems I presume. What then?
September 7th, 2010 at 11:48 pm
@ Paul,
I’ve written an article about what you can do which you might find helpful.
Um…there’s no easy answer to be honest. Heres a couple of tips: stumbleupon.com, you need friends at Triond and at Stumble, commenting on others = views (as much as I disagree with it), fiction and poetry won’t get many views.
RJ