Triond was the first site I wrote for. I found it using Stumbleupon.
Stumble is a site, (I’ve mentioned it before) which you join, pop in your interests, hit the Stumble button and are shown all sorts of sites, one after another.
I joined Triond in 2007.
Unlike other sites which have one template, Triond had many. News, Women’s Issues, Medical information, television, sports, all had their own template.
Some of the topics paid better than others. I believe on Quazen it was 1c for 6 hits and on Authspot, which was for fiction, it was 1c for 25 hits.
Triond ‘double paid’, you’d get money from the site, and money from Adsense, (when it adopted adsense). Every user was able to get his or her personal Adsense account which they could use everywhere.
Every day one’s earnings were posted, right there on the front page. And payment was automatic every month.
In 2010 Google, pretending to be ‘cleaning up the web’ but in truth trying to chase people into it’s short lived non-paying site called ‘Knol’, introduced it’s Panda.
Google said that it was to deal with ‘Content Farms’ but what it really did was target sites like Triond, and insure that searches ignored it.
For example, on Triond I had written a piece; “How To Wash Silk”. It was published and anyone anywhere in the world would go to my article.
Until the Panda.
If you used Google, (which owns Adsense, btw) it Would Not go to Triond. It would go to all sorts of other sites, some only having the word ‘Silk’ in it’s title.
What happened to Triond was almost a crime. Thousands of people used it, millions visited, and if I say I made $50 a month from Triond alone, that was nothing to brag about.
I know someone who got over 2 Million hits in one month. With 1c per every six views… do the math.
Triond limped along. Having to drop it’s pay, trying to catch up with other ads, doing what it could to survive.
In November 2010 it had (according to compete.com) it had over 500k hits.
In August of 2011 it had less than 200k.
Eventually it went down. Just like that. No warning, nothing. Just type Triond.com and go to “This Site Can’t Be Reached”.
During the years Triond existed, lots of people wrote for it. It had an unmoderated forum where you could lurk and find out a lot of backstories on items and ideas.
Although I’m sure there was rubbish published, most of the stuff, even ridiculous stuff, was well written.
A lot of stuff that was farce was believed, and picked up.. i.e. the suicide of Johnny Depp, Whitehouse Insider, and stuff like that.
The writers, assuming the readers had a whole brain for themselves, presumed that one would read the farce, check the obvious give aways, and chuckle, not that people would believe it. Believe it, quote it, and defend it.
The chap who wrote the ‘suicide’ story said, (I’m paraphrasing):
“I’d put in so many twists, had him being in one city, killing himself, his body found in another city…who could read it and believe it?”
There is nothing like Triond.
A site that paid you even if you made 52c. A site that gave you so many options.
Alas, poor Triond, I knew it.
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@kaylar I joined Trioned in 2010 referred by Lady Elena (she introduced me to all the sites right from Hubpage to Wikinut and Squidoo to Zazzle. I was probably the only member having received payment from Trioned up to November 2015 when most members had left the site. 7 of my articles brought me close to 1.m million views in last three months but my average payment was $25 per month due to very low pay rate. I have probably no screen shot to prove my point but I will check if there is any of them left as a proof of my statement.
I don't doubt you. There were many items that went viral. There was a large audience. When the site went down it's hits and pay had dramatically dropped.
In Nov 2010 when there were 500k hits... that was down by half.
I signed up for Triond. I just never found my comfort level so I left.
That was odd, because it was so easy. You didn't have to find an image, they'd give you one, and you had so many topics you could write about.
They kept rejecting my writing. I didn't know why but it wasn't worth being aggravated. :(
That is strange because Triond usually was press and publish... very little waiting time.
Strange indeed. Most people reported an experience similar to yours, not mine. That's why I moved on. If you're at a site and it's working for everybody else except you, then leave. It's not your site. You have no control. The owners don't have to allow you to be there anyway. I wasn't interested in an explanation. Either the site is easy for me to use or I'm outta there! Simple as that. :)
ah, you are not the only one!
When I first joined triond many years ago, I think it was in the 2012, I had earned 30 cents for the whole year, I got so frustrated that my posts didn't get any traffic and were copied pasted by other cheaters, I closed my account and removed my posts to bubblews where I got paid, at least
Again... that's a bit strange. But with Triond, you had this whole aspect of sharing, with a pile of sites and what you learned to do was post, then start sharing like crazy..
I would say, that from 2007 - 2010 you could make $50 a month. It started dropping with Google's Panda.
Strange that I should find this now...
I wrote for Triond for a number of years, generally earned between $100-$200 per month for the final few years. I just tired of flagging the plagiarists and the crap articles, knowing full well that THOSE were what was going to kill online-writing as a monetized endeavor. We can blame PANDA all we want, but it was the CRAP posts like fake celebrity deaths, copy/paste plagiarism that was to doom the site.
While I saddened by the loss of the viable platform and the rewards it brought, it was good to see the internet being swept of bad content. It was the 'fake news' before that overused phrase became commonplace...