It Has Finally Happened: Triond Lost The Plot

The writing has been on the wall for a long time. We knew that the editors were unable to read English, or more probably that they are unable to read period. Bu now they have lost their marbles, too. If it hadn’t cost me valuable time, the whole incident would have amused me no end.

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Dead and Buried on Triond vs. Daily Views on Expertscolumn

Did you notice that some of your articles are just dead and buried on Triond after the first few views by your friends? Is it your fault? What went wrong if it wasn’t your fault? And what can you do about it?
I have noticed that several of my articles attract the first few views on Triond, and then that was it. A few cents return for an article is not my idea of earning money through writing and I had a good look at the articles that went under the ice.

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Comparison of Triond, Expertscolumn, Xomba, Shvoong, and Bukisa Online Publishing

Currently, I am using (on and off) five online publishing sites to place my articles. All of them have their advantages and disadvantages. But using them all has some definite advantages for you, the writer of online content and articles.
Each of the five online publishers Triond, Expertscolumn, Xomba, Shvoong, and Bukisa has its own pitfalls and earning possibilities. Some of them are better than others in certain respects. But using them all gives you certain advantages in republishing your articles and using them as relevant outside links again in your future writing.

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Solved: Triond’s Logic in Placing Articles

I finally cracked the logic behind Triond editors’ logic in placing articles on the different sites. In fact, the solution was so easy; I should have arrived at it two years back, if not earlier.
We all constantly wonder where our articles got to. I am not talking about the multitude of articles that Triond just tends to lose and never find again. I am talking of the odd places articles disappear to on the different sites Triond runs, that is, before they lose them completely in internet limbo with which they are obviously unable to cope.

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Back-up Your Articles on Your Computer or Lose Them

When you publish articles on-line, it makes good sense to save them to your computer, too, as Triond is not the only site that manages to lose articles or confines them to the bin. But keeping your articles on your computer and keeping them organised has further advantages for you and your writing.
Triond lost my articles and I was just glad I had everything save on my computer again (with an additional back-up on an external hard-drive). Like this, I was able to republish them instantly on Expertscolumn while I waited for Triond to clear up the mess. Obviously, its now over a month and Triond has done what it does best: Nothing.

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Triond Has a Major Flag Failure

When Triond announced the installation of a flag button on all its pages, it was already clear that there would be trouble. Here is my story and what went wrong thanks to the flag (and several other reasons).
It has been clear for some time that something was going wrong at Triond. I personally don’t know if any of the editors is able to read; I do know that they are unable to read English. Most of my articles have been published in astonishing places, usually with no connection to the articles’ contents. I have grown used to that.

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Why Triond Runs The Quality Challenge

Some few are happy, many are unhappy about Triond running a quality challenge for the second time. While quality has nothing to do with it as we all know, there is a reason to doing it all the same. You might have guessed that Triond is not spending those extra dollars just to make us happy, didn’t you?

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Promote Your Triond Articles Through Your Expertscolumn Account

Expertscolumn is a site that allows you to publish your articles, much like Triond does. It allows you to republish your articles previously published on Triond as well. Unlike slowly dying Bukisa, it allows you in text links to your Triond (or other) articles. And it allows you to edit your articles at any time to include new links in old articles. All this adds up to a powerful tool to promote your articles on Triond.

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Is Triond Losing The Plot?

Actually, I don’t know if Triond is losing the plot (completely), but I know they are losing articles. Or at least, they somehow lost five of mine. Did they also lose yours?

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Unresolved: Why Triond Needs to Step Up its Editorial Work

Since my initial article, nothing much has changed on Triond. Articles are still published in plagiarised versions. And I found a second interesting group of articles: Double publications by the same author. Begs the question: What is going on here? (Or rather, why is nothing being done?)
Following my article Why Triond Needs to Step Up its Editorial Work I expected Triond to react a bit more robustly than by issuing a statement that they have closed down the account of the offender. In fact, they were in so much haste to do that they missed out on one article included in my first publication.

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Why Triond Needs to Step Up its Editorial Work

Am I the first to notice? Or did it just sort of slip below the radar? Plagiarism of other writers is bad form at the least. While it may happen on one site that another’s work is brazenly copied without the editors noticing it, it should be evident if the publication is on the same site.
I am quite used to finding one or another article of mine having been copied by a writer on another site. I am quite flattered by that, as it proves my writing is better than anything they have on that site, but I surely take steps.

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Why Every Triond User Should Have an Expertscolumn Account, Too

A Triond friend of mine recently advised me to open an account with Expertscolumn to republish my articles. While I do that sporadically, I found a reason as to why every Triond (and any other writer for all that) user should have an account there, even if they do not intend to publish there.
Expertscolumn is a publishing site based in India. While it offers you the possibility to submit articles, the choice of possible subjects is quite limited as opposed to the freedom we enjoy on Triond. But unlike Triond, they do not insist on original material and allow you to republish articles you have published on other sites. Al they ask is that you use the same user name as on the original publishing site.

Join Expertscolumn via this link.

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Use Triond’s Top Search Phrases Features to Learn and Earn

Along with the Traffic Geo Distribution, Triond introduced a new Search Phrases feature on the dashboard. Are you making the most of the information you might glean from it?

About a month ago Triond embarked on a major overhaul of the dashboard. Visit Trends and Top Referring Sites were changed from showing unique views overall to unique views per article. The Traffic Geo Distribution gives you an idea where your articles are of interest and where your readers are hailing from. I for one noticed with some astonishment that only 39 percent of my traffic comes from English speaking countries. Less surprising is 66 percent of traffic coming from European countries.

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What Triond Special Promotions Really Do for Us Writers

We only had two such promotions so far, one in August and one in October, where Triond offered up a 10 percent bonus on the monthly earnings of frequent writers. I have done an analysis of my earnings over the last two years and arrived at a startling result.

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Use Triond Explore to Add Value to Your Articles

When writing articles, you may add to the value of your article by putting in relevant links. As Triond has an enormous database of valuable writing, an extensive information pool is just a click away. The use of Triond articles to link to has other positive effects as well.

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Triond Writing Facts and Family Support

Several writers have been commenting on writing on Triond recently, and I liked what they said. But some things seem not to be included in these articles. I therefore decided to have a go at it and see if I can clarify some things, to myself as well as to others. More

Old Stuff, But Worth Reading on Triond

Old stuff on Triond is worth reading, too. You might want to go through your friends older articles from time to time to read older articles or to reread them. Or you might use the search function when writing an article of your own and include old related materials to what you are currently doing. More

Is It Worthwhile to Write News Items for Triond?

After reading the comments on my news article on Roman Polanski, I asked myself if it is worthwhile writing news items for Triond at all. As I knew the reaction of ‘that is old news’ from myself reading other writers’ news articles, I found it necessary to raise the question for all to consider. More

Reading and Writing Form a Good Team

Reading other writers’ articles on Triond helps you to develop your own skills. But it does more for you; it opens your mind to new ideas, thereby inspiring you to write new articles. Reading is a major part of my own writing process, usually taking up much more time than the actual writing of the article that I’ll publish. More