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I began my experiments on the internet sometime in 2007 by creating my own web site. I did it purely as an academic exercise. I already knew HTML and had a fairly good knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). I had also been writing for a few web sites like ezinearticles.com, progressiveu.org, Helium etc., so I had a big bunch of ready articles for my site. Let me clarify that there are websites that give you free design templates to suit your needs and any number of free articles for your use, so you don’t need to be a tech wiz. It’s just that I wanted to utilize all my learning and have the satisfaction of designing and hosting my own web site. I registered myself and hosted a free website at Yahoo Geocities. When I was happy with my design, I registered a domain name and hosted my Superfit Health at Yahoo.

Now I had a website www.superfitzone.com on the net, but how will the rest of the world know? Then began my quest that led me to become a member and contribute at different sites, just so I could leave a trail, however faint, to my Superfit Health. I also applied for Google adsense and placed Google ads on my site as another exercise in learning. I discovered many adsense enabled sites, some of which were writingcampus.com, blogandearn.com, hubpages.com, flixya.com, and so on. The first two of these are bogus sites and they have vanished since. Let me recount my experience at Writingcampus. The site openly recommended people to click the ads appearing on their friends’ articles and in the sidebars, but warned against clicking the ads within the main body of the article near the heading. It was a pity that the site advertised that it shared 100% of the revenue and people believed it. I knew better; I looked at the source of the web page (You can do that by choosing the relevant menu option on your browser) and found that the member’s adsense publisher ID appeared only at one place –near the heading of the article, and at every other place the promotors’ adsense ID appeared. I wrote about this fraud at my blogger site, but I felt nobody understood it. Later I stopped writing at writingcampus.

Anyway, let me get back to the adsense revenue at writingcampus and other similar sites. What I found here was that members were banding themselves into groups so they could click at each other’s ads. I knew that from the chat snippets that would appear on the sidebars of the site. What many of them did not realize was that Google disqualifies members if their blogs carried large number of clicks from the same machine as identified by its IP address. As expected, many of them got disqualified and wrote bitter blogs of their experiences.

This point brings me to one worry I have with adsense. If somebody goes on a vindictive clicking spree on my blog, how will I defend myself that I didn’t sponsor or encourage any of that mad act? My adsense account can get suspended and I have no protective cover.

Going back to the topic, I hardly made a cent at writingcampus. The reasons are manifold, and that’s what distinguishes Triond from many other revenue sharing sites.
    •    The quality of the site. Triond is certainly somewhere near the top (my claim is based on experience and gut feeling, and not on statistics or survey) and its Google ranking is certainly ahead of its competitors.  It has different sites that have been optimized with the keywords relevant to the main topic or theme of the website. Therefore the Google ads that appear are relevant to the subject discussed and there are more chances that a reader might click on the ads.
    •    There is an intelligent, supportive community that assures a writer of a certain ready minimum viewership. Triond members share a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with each other. This is one reason why Triond scores over your personal blogs with Google ads; you have to take pains to bring traffic to your personal site.

There are, of course, a few steps you have to take to make sure your articles appear somewhere near the top on search engine listings. Though this is not a topic I have chosen for discussion, let me just enumerate a few:  identify keywords (not too many; key keywords) and use it liberally in the title, description or blurb and at section headings. Using cute and creative headings may help to attract traffic from the site users, but not from search engines. Write on topics people are likely to search: not only on topics that have limited time appeal, but also on topics of perennial interest.

Now for the reasons that make Triond special. Triond is the only site that pays for volume of views and shares adsense revenues as well. I’m unaware of any other site that does this; so if you do, please let me know about such sites. Triond is honest and transparent in its working.

Here is my personal experience with adsense at Triond. I can assure you my earnings at Triond hasn’t dropped noticeably, but the earnings from Triond adsense is comparable to or even better than the earnings at Triond. As I am typing this, I take time to cross my fingers — isn’t it too good to be true?

I would recommend other Triond members to give adsense a try. You can simultaneously use the publisher ID at other revenue-sharing sites and make that seemingly high minimum payoff of $100 an achievable one.