Triond: What's Going On? Does Anyone Know?

I do a bit of writing for Triond the content publishing site and have always earned a reasonable monthly amount for my work. Okay, it was never a fortune but with around 600 articles in their system I have been getting a nice residual income.

Last month everything was suddenly chopped by about 25%. Adsense revenue and Triond income reduced suddenly. I thought that it was perhaps seasonal until the end of January when revenue plummeted by a further 33%. My actual numbers of reads are up in total and I have also added new articles. What on earth is going on?

Things started to go pear shaped just before Triond added Adsense to their system and I suspect that this was an attempt to recoup some of their falling advertising revenue.

The ‘dashboard’ page has not worked for a few months; it refuses to load and the earned income figure stays the same for days on end, even though reads and money earned on articles has gone up. The Hot Content contains articles that quite frankly should never have been published (not all of them, some are excellent). The list gets cut to 5 articles instead of ten after three or four days and then stays the same. Go to the Hot Users list and you’ll see that some writers with huge numbers of articles are not included and others who have never written anything are up there in bold letters.

It can take four days to publish an article that is carefully crafted and by an experienced writer and loads of ‘junk’ in broken English, some of it extremely seedy and almost obscene, is churned out dozens at a time. What are the so called editors doing? Ask them a question and you rarely get an answer unless it benefits them.

Good writers are moving out and only occasionally dropping in just to keep their residual earnings coming in but the way things are going it won’t even be worth spending time doing that.

However, no one from Triond seems to realize that there is less advertising revenue to be had and advertisers don’t want to place ads on pages that contain badly written, inaccurate articles, some of which are penned by people who are clearly barely literate in English. A large chunk of the content is copied from books and this is very obvious where the writer writes excellent, technically corrected English about things like medicine, science and technology but when you look at their profile and comments they have written, their English is of a very poor standard. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to work out what is going on here.

What a mess, something clearly has to give or Triond’s revenue will soon be down to pennies. Who wants to advertise on sites that print rubbish (Triond runs a whole lot of sites) and what’s more, which dedicated writer wants to write on a site where the publishers don’t care what they publish as long as they get content? Some of the health information and advice is quite frankly dangerous and irresponsible. They recently published an article advocating eating raw pork to cure cancer. How irresponsible can they get? How to stop your husband from drinking heavily was answered with the advice that you should tell him you don’t like it and if he loves you he will stop. What rubbish! The list goes on but I don’t want to turn this into a rant.

Does anyone know what’s really going on? There seems to be a ‘don’t care attitude’ from Triond’s staff.

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Black Hats And Link Bait

I wrote a few days ago about the writers who get thousands of reads no matter what they write. The ones who write ridiculous headlines like ‘I slept With Angelina Jolie’ and ‘Tiger Woods Dead’ are prime examples. Thousands of people read these.

A commenter on my article about this said that link baiting could have something to do with it. So, I did a bit of research.

Link baiting is making up a sensational headline in order to get reads. It is a technique that can get thousands of clicks but once the reader finds out they have been scammed, off they go. Long term this will not get you any reads; it’s just works, if it works, immediately.

Before you get the idea that this might solve all your marketing problems, think again.

First of all, this is considered something of a black hat technique and will soon get you a bad reputation as a writer. If you are a genuine writer you don’t want to get branded in this category because no one will read your articles.

Secondly, you will find your articles and website banned by search engines when they crawl through them and discover that your title has nothing to do with your article.

So, I did learn something from the exercise.

A Wander Down Portobello Road

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Portobello Road in London is known as a huge antiques market. It is a street in the Notting Hill area in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is famous for being the title of the movie ‘Notting Hill’ and the location of ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks.’

The area has a long history and until 1740 it was a path named Green’s Lane which led from the gravel pits at Kensington to Kensal Green in London. When Portobello Farm was built Green Lane became Portobello Lane and then in 1841 it became Portobello Road. So, Portobello was constructed by the Victorians and much of its old character still remains.

Nowhere in the world is there so much for the collector, dealer, or designer as you will find here. The market is open on Saturdays but the shops are open six days a week.

There is a variety of shops, cafes, arcades, including Portobello Road in London is known as a huge antiques market. It is a street in the Notting Hill area in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is famous for being the title of the movie ‘Notting Hill’ and the location of ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks.’

The area has a long history and until 1740 it was a path named Green’s Lane which led from the gravel pits at Kensington to Kensal Green in London. When Portobello Farm was built Green Lane became Portobello Lane and then in 1841 it became Portobello Road. So, Portobello was constructed by the Victorians and much of its old character still remains.

Nowhere in the world is there so much for the collector, dealer, or designer as you will find here. The market is open on Saturdays but the shops are open six days a week.

There is a variety of shops, cafes, arcades, including Quicksilver games arcade and stalls all concentrated in one area. If you need a short break from the hustle and bustle of the shopping area (and it does get very busy) you can sit down and have a coffee, or a meal, or even completely step out of the crowds, before, after or even during your shopping trip, with a game or two in the Quicksilver Arcade.

This really is a fantastic place for those with a sense of history and atmosphere is one that you would never find anywhere else. Portobello Road on a Saturday when the market is open, is a fascinating place.



and stalls all concentrated in one area, so if you need a short break from the hustle and bustle of the shopping area (and it does get very busy) you can sit down and have a coffee, or a meal, or even completely step out of the crowds with a game or two in the Quicksilver Arcade.

This really is a fantastic place for those with a sense of history and atmosphere is one that you would never find anywhere else. Portobello Road on a Saturday when the market is open, is a fascinating place.

How Do Some Writers Get Thousands of Reads To Their Articles?

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I have put a great deal of time and energy into marketing my articles and blogs over the years and I supposed if I was honest, I have spent as much time doing that as I have writing. This is quite upsetting when I really think about it because I don't want to be an internet promoter and marketer. I just want to write.

Following the honest way of getting visitors to blogs, websites and articles is very hard work and yes, it does gradually build up but when I see some writers who can post just about anything and get thousands of reads, just because they know how to work the internet, is quite discouraging.

I have had comments from other writers saying, 'Well, it's the writing that matters, not the money', and to an extent that's true, but those of us who have to make a living have a slightly different viewpoint. We can't afford to be quite that altruistic.

I did try to find out how those writers with all their thousands of hits on their articles made it happen. I even even invited someone to tell me where to go to learn, but no one was willing to say anything.

Take a look here at the article and the comments beneath it.Will one of those expert marketers spill the beans?

A Forgotten Source Of Ideas For Writing

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I was tidying out the cupboard where I keep all my bits of paper and writing materials, dictionary, etc and I found a large plastic folder that I had forgotten about.

Inside the folder were hundreds of clippings from newspapers, magazines and leaflets that I have collected over the past year. I was delighted and spent most of the afternoon looking through them. Isn’t it easy to get side tracked when you didn’t really want to do the original job?

Anyway, many of these sparked ideas off in my head and I found that I had so many ideas for articles that I really couldn’t wait to start writing again. I do have another box on my desk with newspaper cuttings in it, but this collection really got my mind going.

It’s an excellent idea to collect things like this and then when you need ideas you can have a look and see what sparks your interest.

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