I have been on Triond for nearly 4 years now and as much as I enjoy the writing and the friendly community the service provided by Triond itself is disappointing and inefficient. Here are the problems I have experienced.
Financial
1. Recently I have accumulated a fair amount of money from Google Adsense. However I looked at my dashboard the other day and saw the work ‘check‘ to my Adsense earnings and no credit. This morning my earnings show in the ‘next payment’ box but there is no sign of my accumulation of Adsense. So where did it go? And is this a problem with Triond scamming us, or Google?
2. You may have been among the users who were awarded thousands of dollars in content revenue and yet this was an error on the part of Triond. Not only did they take away the incorrect funds but also with it went some of my genuine money.
Technological
3. When you publish an article you select which category you want to publish under i.e. writing, poetry, health and so on. Triond then allocates the article to a particular site. I am having more and more articles incorrectly published on inappropriate websites in spite of communicating my wishes, and repeatedly requesting reallocations.
The series I wrote on T.S Eliot’s Waste Land belongs on Bookstove, and yet for some reason most of it has gone to Sociberty?? Be warned also that if you put words about cookery on an article about health, then likely Triond will send it to Notecook!
And the worst part is you can’t get it back.
In summary, I am disappointed with the service and suspicious of fraud, either on the part of Triond, or Google. If you were one of the people who was credited with the thousands of dollars and managed to keep it then you should have gone quiet and taken it. Dishonesty? No. With all the hours of hard work you have put in on Triond over the years for peanuts, it was a fair price!
Unfortunately Triond is one of those places that stays in business even though it is shoddy, because there is nowhere similar for its users to go. If anybody knows of a decent, quality writing site (I’m not talking about Bukisa or Wikinut, I have tried those. I‘m not talking about somebody‘s profit making scam either). I’d love to hear from you.
Failing that, does anybody have the know how to create a site, or help me with it? There is definitely a gap in the market.
I don’t know why Triond ask what category a piece belongs to on the submit page as they clearly ignore your choice and run some sort of automatic categorisation algorithm that just bases its choice on key words. And I strongly suspect that the relocation request link simply reruns it through the same algorithm again. If you’ve not made any changes to the text itself, then that’ll clearly result in exactly the same choice being made second time around. That’s what software does – if the inputs don’t change, neither will the output!
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I’ve had articles moved, but only after requesting it through Get Satisfaction, and even then they asked if I’d tried a relocation request (now I just say that I have, so they won’t nag me about it!).
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change something in the article temporarily and then change it back once they publish it where u want
I’ve had a few similar issues. I wish more would be paid towards the hard working articles we create.
I tend to find that one particular article seems to get view more than any other. It’s around 1 to 2 views almost every day for over a year.
Magic Quill,
Sorry to hear about your experience with Triond.
Hope Triond just wakes up to your agony.
Its sad if it lets us down with silence.
I agree with you. These are very good points. Google Adsense is a scam. After accumulating almost $100.00, they decided to disable my account. Therefore, I’ve deleted most of my articles on this site. Most of my earnings and views were coming from Adsense. If they want to protect their advertisers, fine, but their advertisers aren’t going to make any revenue from my original articles.
I had AdSense too, and it got disabled by Google. Now I don’t really have information about how triond really works but I think I have some idea why you get paid more for some articles and less for other even if the numbers of views is higher than the ones which you’re paid more for. I am sorry they won’t do anything about the earnings. Last month I got paid on 12th not 10th as usual… what if they are having financial problems? I wonder…
I hope the improvement. We work hard, but no gain
I hope for improvement. Work hard, no gain
I tend to go through Get Satisfaction for reallocations now as the normal way of doing it is atrocious. It was when they put my memorial piece for a local man on Trifter Afghanistan and refused to move it I flipped!
Magic Quill, try Brighthub.com, Wisegeek.com and about.com. Based on what I read about them I would have used them if Paypal was fully functional in my country. I can’t imagine why I don’t hear Triond writers talking about them.
stay with triond, but not as your only site.
I’m surprised they published this for you. lol. I support Martin’s statement. Stay with Triond but not as your only site.
Of all the Writing sites I know, Triond pays the least, but it has a good community.
Yes agree. Triond community is rocking.
Luckily, I am still using my adsense for Triond and all my blogs.
Adsense is untrustworthy.
I would recommend InfoBarrel. I earned about 5 dollars on my first day of putting on advertisements on two articles, which in triond took a good 6 months (And 10 articles). However if you have lot’s of followers here then you should consider double dipping and see how it goes. That’s what I’m currently doing. Also, if you want to create a website, I would recommend Weebly (although I see that you already have one). It’s the only service besides Wix(which is largely unuseful) that doesn’t force ads on your site and has a decent blogging feature.
Hope this helps
I would recommend InfoBarrel. It pays you 75%of instead of 50% like triond. Your articles are also a lot likely to be found. I was shocked when I found that I got 200 views on my first day! I earned about 5 dollars on my first day of putting on advertisements on two articles, which in triond took a good 6 months (And 10 articles). However if you have lot’s of followers here then you should consider double dipping and see how it goes. That’s what I’m currently doing. Also, if you want to create a website, I would recommend Weebly (although I see that you already have one). It’s the only service besides Wix(which is largely unuseful) that doesn’t force ads on your site and has a decent blogging feature.
Hope this helps
Hey…hmmm, starting to wonder what I’ve let myself in for! So, did Trion actually give money away, like in a competition, or was it an IT error? As for other sites…I assume you’re aware of Ciao and Dooyoo?? xx