Once upon a time all the revenue sharing sites were very helpful to their members to focus on creating content without having to worry about marketing it. With time it happened that the sites grew enormously especially in the case of Triond after which the control of posted content gone away to junk, garbage, software produced, spun, forward and reverse language translated content which are non readable and also have grammar problems. Triond failed to filter these content while at the same time causing troubles to innocent some new writers who were writing original content without these mistakes.
This ultimately brought down the quality of the website and hence the google search engine rankings since Google went with their new Panda updates in 2011.
Earlier writing to these sites was more beneficial than writing to their own new blog as a new website doesn't have any ranking whereas these sites already have established presence, search engine ranking, social networking features that ensured little traffic atleast to your articles. And it wasn't coming free. They take 50% share of your earnings for much ado nothing (as of today).
But now their advantage is gone. One has to rub others back too much to get their reciprocation. Moreover it is an addiction and a complete waste of time. But this Triond culture continues to thrive on writinghood.com.
All of their sub-sites have lost search engine rankings dramatically thanks to all the garbage they allowed to publish. How did I not see this coming? I only looked at the positive aspect. But once you are into a community, there is a chance that the others may pull you down if they are only publishing junk. As it is easier to create junk than original and useful content, it had exploded in volume and diluted the value of good content there. After all the years, all i noticed is that the earnings constantly go down every month (so it is not random variation), page views too go down once every six months. You need to keep on doing something, write more, promote older articles to keep it stable.
I gave up on all of this. The wonderful mistake I did was not to see through the eyes of experience. I ignored the value of TIME. With time such changes can happen and we should always account for in our work. What that means is we should plan for having something down the road. If I was writing for my own blog, I wouldn't have gotten the initial benefits of a revenue sharing site, as the site has to still grow its presence in the web. But with time, I would've established its presence through various channels (its all possible given long enough time). With short term vision, one can't envision these long term benefits of writing for their own site.
I am glad that I atleast occasionally focused on my blogs. But however I had missed a great deal of valuable time that otherwise would've helped this grow further.
In any business, the experienced advice that we need to do something where we have control over. What control we have when writing to revenue sharing sites? The site's ranking may go down and we can't do anything about that. The rules of publishing may change and we can't do anything about that. They may delete older articles and we can't do anything about that. It is a bloody hell of a task to edit older articles or check their performance all together in one place. Moreover your freedom to write however you want (of course still meeting T&C of your advertising partner), using keywords etc. is not there. Then why the hell would you write for them anymore?
And you always have to live with constant fear of losing your account and all work there when somebody complains about a singe misdeed in your article. This is happening now with expertcolumn.
It is all useless to write for these revenue sharing sites. You are just one among many powerless members who can't do anything when things change. Just focus on your own blog, website or forum and continuously look for various ways to get ideas, establish its presence, etc. After all the great work on Triond and supporting work on this blog, now the revenue of both have become equal. You have more control over your blog and also no addictions of waiting for others' comments before going to write another post. No waiting time for publishing and worrying about deleted content. Time will anyway pass as it always happened. Short term vision is dangerous. Focus on the long term. With time, wonderful things can happen.
I can see all my dreams coming true after removing the reckless constraints of writing to these useless revenue sharing sites and imagining the freedom on my own. Now I also don't have the constraint of Google Adsense.
This ultimately brought down the quality of the website and hence the google search engine rankings since Google went with their new Panda updates in 2011.
Earlier writing to these sites was more beneficial than writing to their own new blog as a new website doesn't have any ranking whereas these sites already have established presence, search engine ranking, social networking features that ensured little traffic atleast to your articles. And it wasn't coming free. They take 50% share of your earnings for much ado nothing (as of today).
But now their advantage is gone. One has to rub others back too much to get their reciprocation. Moreover it is an addiction and a complete waste of time. But this Triond culture continues to thrive on writinghood.com.
All of their sub-sites have lost search engine rankings dramatically thanks to all the garbage they allowed to publish. How did I not see this coming? I only looked at the positive aspect. But once you are into a community, there is a chance that the others may pull you down if they are only publishing junk. As it is easier to create junk than original and useful content, it had exploded in volume and diluted the value of good content there. After all the years, all i noticed is that the earnings constantly go down every month (so it is not random variation), page views too go down once every six months. You need to keep on doing something, write more, promote older articles to keep it stable.
I gave up on all of this. The wonderful mistake I did was not to see through the eyes of experience. I ignored the value of TIME. With time such changes can happen and we should always account for in our work. What that means is we should plan for having something down the road. If I was writing for my own blog, I wouldn't have gotten the initial benefits of a revenue sharing site, as the site has to still grow its presence in the web. But with time, I would've established its presence through various channels (its all possible given long enough time). With short term vision, one can't envision these long term benefits of writing for their own site.
I am glad that I atleast occasionally focused on my blogs. But however I had missed a great deal of valuable time that otherwise would've helped this grow further.
In any business, the experienced advice that we need to do something where we have control over. What control we have when writing to revenue sharing sites? The site's ranking may go down and we can't do anything about that. The rules of publishing may change and we can't do anything about that. They may delete older articles and we can't do anything about that. It is a bloody hell of a task to edit older articles or check their performance all together in one place. Moreover your freedom to write however you want (of course still meeting T&C of your advertising partner), using keywords etc. is not there. Then why the hell would you write for them anymore?
And you always have to live with constant fear of losing your account and all work there when somebody complains about a singe misdeed in your article. This is happening now with expertcolumn.
It is all useless to write for these revenue sharing sites. You are just one among many powerless members who can't do anything when things change. Just focus on your own blog, website or forum and continuously look for various ways to get ideas, establish its presence, etc. After all the great work on Triond and supporting work on this blog, now the revenue of both have become equal. You have more control over your blog and also no addictions of waiting for others' comments before going to write another post. No waiting time for publishing and worrying about deleted content. Time will anyway pass as it always happened. Short term vision is dangerous. Focus on the long term. With time, wonderful things can happen.
I can see all my dreams coming true after removing the reckless constraints of writing to these useless revenue sharing sites and imagining the freedom on my own. Now I also don't have the constraint of Google Adsense.
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2 comments:
It feels great to belong to a community, specially one that's as supportive and as friendly as the Triond group. I have no regrets writing for Triond. I still remember when I started blogging in 2008: it was a very quiet and lonely experience. Then I found Triond. I moved all of my posts from blogspot to Triond after I met its very supportive members. I won't be happy to see Triond down. After all, I still have more than 50 posts there. What about you, will you remove your articles from the site despite its decline in terms of revenue sharing?
Warayblogger,
A supportive is very helpful indeed. But such a community has drawbacks if you are posting all your content there. So write there only to interacting with fellow members.
I can't delete any stuff from there as I have bookmarked them at one bookmarking site. Some bookmarking users may flag links which don't lead to any content. Hence can't delete old stuff. If needed I can post it here with little rewrite anyway which is also friendly with Google and I will lot of flexibility to deal with it (even including some constant text in all the posts as filler, which is not possible at Triond.
Blogging is not lonely if we as Trionder-turned-bloggers continue to reciprocate on a broader level. I told there earlier that commenting there wont get you any benefit (long lasting) other than direct reciprocation. But if you do the same for blogging, your blog will gain some ranking with time. And it won't die down as blogs are not filled as fast as Triond sites. It is human controlled and Google likes it. Why Google? For now, Google filter is like a gold standard for world wide web structure.
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