Triond Success Stories: A Jump in Visit Trends Graph
My daily traffic was averaging 90-100 views but last October 26, 2010, pageviews suddenly jumped to 739.
In this article, I will share to you my Triond success story and the learning I gathered after the event. Please express your own success stories, opinion, reactions or questions in the comments below.
This success story may be a simple matter for Triond veterans who are receiving 1,000 views a day. But this is a big matter for me.
Though I started here at Triond two years ago, I still consider myself a newbie. For the whole year of 2008, I only published poems and didn’t get much results. That is why I went on to hiatus and only started writing again last July 2010. I only consider myself a four months old Triond member.
From Zero to 100 Views A Day
After my hiatus from Triond, I literally started from zero. None of my 19 poems were receiving traffic.
Luckily, when I stopped writing for Triond, I tried blogging and learn a few things about search engine optimization and what topics internet users usually search for. I used what I learned from blogging when I started to write again for Triond.
Among some ten articles I wrote, two became successful. The two articles are “Is Kristine Hermosa a Cast of Noah on Abs-cbn?” and “Winner of Survivor Philippines Celebrity Showdown Leaked?” The second one is more popular and more long-lasting. Both of these articles gave me an average of 100 views a day.
The Jump to 739 Views!
Last October 26, 2010, I published an article that has been solely responsible for the jump of my traffic from 100 views to 739 views. This article is: “November 2, 2010 is Not a Holiday in Philippines”
There are two factors that contributed to the success of this article:
- From my blogging days, I know that holiday announcement is a hot topic which is usually searched for in the internet.
- It was published in Socyberty which is a PageRank 4 website.
- Yes, there are actually three factors. The third is I linked to the article from my high traffic PageRank 0 blog.
The article would have not been as successful if I had published it on my PageRank 0 blog. But I leveraged Socyberty’s popularity on the web to bring more traffic to my blog.
The Power of the Related Articles Section
I must tell you, however, that the 739 pageviews did not only come from that holiday article. Below that article, I created a “Related Articles” section where I linked to four of my other articles.
Only about 500 views were received by the holiday article, and the other 200 views were received by those four related articles. Even the article about not shopping alone which I wrote in 2008 suddenly received views!
If I had not created a “Related Articles” section, then maybe I will only have about 500 views in total for that day. This is why I told you in my article “Do Not Submit a Triond Article Until You Read This” that you should link to your other articles.
Another Important Learning
After receiving that great amount of traffic, I thought to myself: What if I had published this on Bukisa rather than on Triond?
Bukisa’s current index is $3.22 which means for every 1,000 views your article receives, you get $3.22. If I had published that holiday article on Bukisa, I should have at least half of $3.22 for the traffic I received that day!
For that day, my total earnings from Triond is only $0.10. Socyberty’s ECPM is not really $2+ as others say. It still depends.
This is a very important learning for me. The next time I know an article will be this popular, I will submit it to Bukisa first. The main reason I submitted it to Triond without thinking much about Bukisa is because of the October Special. I am still two articles short counting this article in.
Update: On October 27, my total visits is 1,057!
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October 28th, 2010 at 7:12 am
Very good post, I learned a lot here. I am also almost more than a year here in Triond.
October 29th, 2010 at 1:06 am
nice to know that you are doing good nowadays. salamat din sa mga pointers mo. tatandaan ko yan.
October 30th, 2010 at 12:32 am
thats interesting
October 30th, 2010 at 1:40 am
researchanalyst,
I know, right? Hahaha..
I know after November 2, my traffic stats will be back to 100 views a day. But at least I reached 1000 views a day. This gives me inspiration that I also can reach it in the future.
I also just want to document my Triond Success Stories while they are fresh in my mind.
Thanks for commenting!
November 1st, 2010 at 9:17 am
Will make use of your insights in writing my next few sets of articles. Umabot ka ba sa October promo nila?
November 1st, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Nhil,
Yes! Umabot ako! Just in the nick of time! My 10th article was published a few ours before October ends (in US time).
It’s really interesting to analyze which articles get successful. And then use that learning to your other articles.
February 12th, 2011 at 9:54 am
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June 3rd, 2011 at 3:36 am
nice sharing. i read the full story and enjoyed it when reading. and i get inspired when read you success story.
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June 12th, 2011 at 10:32 pm
Great article, nice success story
July 4th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
awesome! If only i am like you, im only making about 5 bucks a motnh!
August 8th, 2011 at 12:35 pm
interesting. good information to know.
April 22nd, 2012 at 9:20 am
This is a safe approach in the long term than writing for passive income where you are not sure when google tweaks an alogirthm. Why aren’t you maximing on this path?
April 22nd, 2012 at 8:23 pm
Recently I have posted another Trend Writing article which is the April 7, 2012 holiday, which has already received 2000 views but only earned $0.23 on Triond. (I can’t tell what amount of my google adsense earnings are accountable to this article but it is still under a dollar.)
To answer your question, if I would continue on this path of Trend Writing, there is always a need to stay in the loop or to be always aware of what is trending. As I get old, I want to work less and less which is why I want more passive income.
With Trend Writing, if you get lost of track of what’s hot, you wont be earning anymore. Unlike in writing about evergreen topics, the article will still be earning even if the topic doesn’t peak.
Though Google may tweak the algorithm, it will remain to be a fact that “links” matter in their algorithm. I think that is the basic thing about SEO and we can take advantage of the links we can get. SEO is not really that hard.