free http://www.writinghood.com/tags/free New posts about free Proven Strategies at Maximizing Your Triond Earnings and Article Views http://www.writinghood.com/Online-Writing/Proven-Strategies-at-Maximizing-Your-Triond-Earnings-and-Article-Views.429391 Let’s be blunt. When you first sign up on Triond, you think to yourself, “This is great! I can finally write articles to my heart’s content and make good money off it too!” Then, within a month of signing up, your view changes to, “This sucks! I already have 10 articles, they’ve each got only 20 views or less, and I only have $0.10 in my account.” Now, to be fair, I can understand your anger. At a real job, minimum wage is usually at least $10.00 an hour. If it took you 5 hours to write those 10 articles, you should’ve made at least $50.00 - not a measly 10 cents.

Well, that’s where advertising kicks into play. Chan Lee Peng put it best when he said that, “Back link is by far the best strategy which is used to attract readers/ visitors to your article/ website” in his article entitled “How to Get Non-stop Traffic and Page Views to Your Websites or Articles.”

Aside from submitting your article links to the major search engines, and like Chan said, using Yahoo! Answers and E-pinion, I have 5 additional tips to add. I have tried all of the strategies myself and they seem to be working, at least for the moment anyway.

Affiliations

If you have a website or a blog, it’s quite common to affiliate with other websites and blogs. Placing a small text or picture link on your site in exchange for placing your text or picture link on another site is relatively common practice these days. It’s not that someone who views your site or the other site will click on the affiliate link, but it’s more of the fact that the more sites the link to your article is on, the easier it is for search engines to find it, and the higher up in the search results your article will be.

Free Banners

If you’re good at using Adobe Photoshop, you can take a look at Free Banners, a banners-exchange site whereby placing a small banner code in your website will let you earn credits that are automatically used to advertise your banner on other websites. In addition, if you place the banner code at the top of your website pages, you’ll automatically obtain Gold Membership from Free Banners, allowing other Gold Members to view your banner, thus increasing the number of people checking out your articles.

Your banner can even be as simple as a plain white rectangle with the name of your article on it.

Invision Power Boards

There are many forum board hosting services on the World-Wide-Web, but the major ones are phpBB 3.0, Invision Power Boards, and V-Bulletin. Of these three services, Invision Power Boards has the best search engine crawling capabilities. It has a feature in the Administration Control Panel of its boards that lets forum administrators allow “Search Engine Spiders” to crawl your board’s pages and add them to the engine’s search results. For example, in the Administrator Control Panel on my forum board, my statistics show that Google crawls through my forum at least 5 times every day, adding new forum post links to their search engine.

Keep in mind that Invision Power Boards is completely different to InvisionFree, an older version which does not have the same success when it comes to search engines crawling your pages.

Even if you have no interest in creating or maintaining a forum board, create one just to post links to your articles. Enable the “Search Engine Spiders” option in your Administrator Control Panel, and search engines like Google, Yahoo!, Live and HotBot will crawl through your forum board. Any links on your board to your articles will also be crawled through and added to the search engines as well.

Link Referral

Previously called Link Exchange until it was bought over by Microsoft and its original site transformed into a Microsoft Office advertising page (go figure, here we go again with greedy powerhouse Bill Gates), Link Referral is just what its name suggests - a site where you can refer a link to other people. The site has thousands of members, and hundreds of thousands of submitted links in their database. In short, it’s like submitting your site to a search engine. The difference is that YOU alone control how high your link appears in Link Referral’s Search Engine Database.

Every day, you have the option of viewing 30 other member-submitted links, posting 5 reviews on other links, selecting 1 link as your favorite for the day, and writing 1 post for the Link Referral forum board. If you do all of this on a daily basis (they say it takes 45 minutes per day, but in my experience it takes about 2 hours), your link’s position on the site’s Search Engine results will substantially increase. Also, the more detailed reviews you post on other people’s sites, the better grade you get as your review rating. A higher grade also affects your link’s position. I have an ‘A’ grade, and by completing the 30 visits, 5 reviews, 1 favorite and 1 forum post, I can get my site to within the top 3 positions in the Link Referral search engine. The top 5 spots in the search engine rack up 20 to 60 visits each day, so you can see the earnings potential when you add up the number of people viewing your Triond article.

Triond Community Forums

The official Triond Community Forums, where all Triond members are encouraged to communicate with other Triond members. Expand your reputation, and you’ll gain more exposure and thus earnings for any content you submit to Triond itself.

]]> Wed, 31 Dec 2008 07:00:13 PST Passive Income: Earn Money While You Eat, Sleep, and Travel: Monetize Your Writing http://www.writinghood.com/Online-Writing/Passive-Income-Earn-Money-While-You-Eat-Sleep-and-Travel-Monetize-Your-Writing.406529 Writing is no longer just for the pros. You don't need a high priced editor and a book deal. Anyone can make money writing. The key to passive income is multiple streams of money coming in.

When it comes to making money online writing, write what you know. Start by extending your job into your writing. Are you a bored employee stuck in middle management? Write about consuming time at work, how to fix problems quickly, how to save time on your commute to work, etc. Branch out and begin writing about things you're interested in, hobbies, dreams, travels, finances, and anything that makes you happy or you enjoy.

Writing is the easy part. You won't make money unless people read it though. You have to promote your writing and constantly. Try to find new sources to show your work too. With the internet you have powerful social networking tools available, and if your article gets popular on one of the big social networking sites, its likely to pop up on the others.

Find smaller blogs that are specialized in one field of expertise. Contact them with a link to your article, many times they will link to it or mention it, boosting your earning.

Writing online is one of the best forms of passive income if you can generate enough content. Online publishing is the best example of set it and forget it. Again the key is numbers, when you start out, having 5 articles may only earn you pocket change or a couple dollars a month. This is where 95% of writers quit, seeing that the time to money ratio is so nominal that it's almost worth laughing at. Don't give up here, look at it as a way to improve a skill, not to make money. Priority number one with online writing is content, if the content is good, the money will follow.

Write short articles with small paragraphs. Internet users have a very short attention span and most won't read an article but skim the headlines and paragraphs, so keep your most enticing details at the beginning of each paragraph. Writing in parts or series is also a great way to stagger your long articles and generate more page views which means more income.

Don't be discouraged, just keep churning out the writing, 5 articles might make you $2 dollars a month, but what will 50 articles make? or 100? or 500? Consider the long term payouts of having a database of articles which you never touch again, just collect money from.

Here are some great websites to monetize your writing:

  • Triond - Write about anything, You can also post photos, video and audio.This is a personal favorite.
  • Ehow - Write about anything you know how to do.
  • Bukisa - Similar to Triond.com. Newer site, great place to start


Here is a list of social networking sites for promoting your articles:

]]> Sat, 20 Dec 2008 07:25:21 PST Why is Triond a Great Place to Earn Money by Writing Articles? http://www.writinghood.com/Online-Writing/Why-is-Triond-a-Great-Place-to-Earn-Money-by-Writing-Articles.399751 What is triond?

Triond is a site that posts articles, poems, stories or any other literary works on one of their websites. You get paid 50% of all revenue generated by your articles.

How does it work?

As I said when you submit an article to triond they post it on their site. When a person clicks on an advertisement (the adds are posted by triond) you earn some cash. Every month triond pays you if you have a minimum balance of $0.50.This cash is given to your paypal account (paypal is an online bank which is free to set up and transfer money)

Why triond is better than other sites

One simple reason is because everyone benefits from triond. Let me explain

You as the author get 50% profit from your article, triond as the host of your article gets 50% profit (which they use to run their company).

Unlike other sites such as bux.to, which have a very high minimum withdrawal, amount triond is only 50 cents, which almost every user can earn in their first month.

When is the money you earned sent to you and how is it calculated?

Money is usually sent at the 15th of every month to your paypal account. Sometimes triond pays the money before the 15th but I have never received any payment later then than 15th.

The money earned is calculates by a simple formula which is even found on the triond website (http://www.triond.com/help/item/topic/earnings/name/how-are-earnings-calculated).

So here is the formula:

Earnings = page views x eRPM / 1000

eRPM

eRPM (effective-revenues-per-millennium) this is the amount earned from advertising for every 1,000 page views. Text articles usually generate a higher eRPM than photos or images because they have more keywords, which are used by advertisers to advertise related content in your articles. Also the topic of the article largely influences the eRPM. For example an article about computer will generate more eRPM than an article of your favorite foods.

Usually, the range of the eRPM is between $0.5-$10.0. The advertising experts of Triond help most content channels to earn a higher eRPM than blogs or small websites.

Page Views (Traffic)

The amount of money generated by your content items is directly proportional to the number of page views it generates. Also the traffic of an article is a more significant factor in determining the revenues of an article than the eRPM .So always concentrate to maximize the amount of traffic visiting your article.

Tips and tricks to maximize your earning.

1.Make an article about things people usually search for.you can find this by seeing the top 100 searchs in popular search engine like google,yahoo.

2.Email your article to friend, relative.

3.Share your article in social networking sites such as facebook, myspace, orkut.

4.Dig your article (www.digg.com) and sign it for sites such as stumblepon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/ ) to maximize the number of page views.

Final thoughts

Triond can be a great way to earn some extra cash online especially if you want to play online games, which require you to pay money like runescape or world of warcraft. Your starting cash may not be great, but if you are a little patient you can see a major increase in the revenue generated by your article.

Thanks for viewing and good luck.

]]> Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:29:04 PST Why Bukisa? http://www.writinghood.com/Online-Writing/Why-Bukisa.397851 I checked out Bukisa a week or so ago and I did not like the way it looked or felt, most of the stuff they show as you enter the site is all video, so I was like its not for me, but a Triond friend said I should look again because they had more articles and stuff, so I did and they have some, but not alot, it's a real formal feeling I get there, there's no pictures of the writers easy to find and befriend, or any  feeling of real people warmth, I don't know maybe its just me, plus to even write an article or poem it has to be like 250 words long, I'm sorry but my feeling's and thoughts are not always that full, I like short and to the point, some can run at the hands like others run at the mouth though I figure, I heard the earnings are better, but I dont post for the mula. 

If someone knows of a good way to navigate the site or if not everything I write has to be so long and I'm wrong, please let me know, if you are on Bukisa and you like it, cool, but please ask them to lower their requirements for me , also ask them to make their site more "Free Writer" friendly.

Thanks.

]]> Mon, 15 Dec 2008 06:28:11 PST Get Paid to Write Fiction and Poetry http://www.writinghood.com/Online-Writing/Get-Paid-to-Write-Fiction-and-Poetry.395817 If you are an aspiring fiction or poetry writer you quickly discover that paying markets are few and far between and, because of this, also very competitive.  The same goes for fiction and poetry contests, many of which charge quite a steep fee to enter.  So what is a fiction writer or a poet to do?  How can we get paid for writing?  One option is to publish your fiction and poems on Triond, a publishing service which will accept practically all type of content, as long as it is well written, and then pay the author half of the advertising revenue that their article, poem or story generates.     

So far I have been using Triond for about a week and have two poems published on it.  My earnings so far are still pretty low, but I am hopeful that they will increase as I add more of my writings.  And low or not, they are still making some money and more that if I got them published in another online magazine just for the prestige and no pay. 

If you have upwards of one hundred published pieces on Triond, then it starts to pay off, earning you a fair monthly recurring income. Of course a lot depends on clicking the ads.  So sign up, get started publishing, and get clicking!   

]]> Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:18:12 PST Get Updates on New Writers’ Market and New Ideas for Projects http://www.writinghood.com/Online-Writing/Get-Updates-on-New-Writers-Market-and-New-Ideas-for-Projects.327929 A freelancer can get good updates by subscribing for newsletters from writers' websites. And, buying a copy of Writer's Market is also helpful. However, we have to catch up with the constant changes in the publishing world. Google Alert is the unique search engine, tracking the entire web for the specific personalized topics and sends new results by daily email.

I registered with Google Alert, (http://www.googlealert.com). (This isn't affiliated with Google) and entered "writer's market" and "writer pay" I'm getting about 50 results regularly. Out of 50, about five are always promising. I entered the phrase "new breed of dog" as my personalized topic. I got 50 results. It helped me not only to do research on my current project on pets, but also to 'breed' many new article-ideas on this theme. And, I also get new sites and new pet magazines markets.

Google is also offering such service. Yet,writers are often annoyed when they get billions of results from the search engines like Yahoo, Google etc. Finding the appropriate market is a difficult task.

I found an easy system. Now, the amount of storage each Gmail user gets has surpassed 7 gigabytes. Get two or more Gmail accounts. With these email Id,subscribe for newsletters in various fields- parenting, family, gardening, business etc. You will get them daily or at regular intervals in you inbox. Websites such as Kidsource send e-mail messages 3 times per week on parenting, education & healthcare information. Major newspapers and magazines run newsletter service on many fields of Living. Most of them are free and some fee-based. Since Gmail's space is continuously increasing, you don't need to delete the messages. Reading all messages is time consuming. Do random survey of newsletters to get new article-ideas. Gmail lets you search your messages through the search box. So if you research on 'bullying among adults' type the words in 'search mail' and get many hooks on this theme. You can put the search results in a folder, called 'label'.

I caution you; for your professional correspondence, you must have a separate Gmail account. With hundreds of newsletters in your inbox, you may miss your editor's assignment.

]]> Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:42:58 PST Triond: A User's Review http://www.writinghood.com/Writing-Business/Opportunities/Triond-A-Users-Review.283927 Triond is a special kind of website. It's not your usual website by any stretch of the imagination. Triond is a website where you submit articles, pictures, images or audio, and you get paid for it too. Triond will host it on one of their many sites, such as Gameolosophy, Bizcovering, Quazen or Webupon, and then you will get paid royalties every time that it is visited. That's right, Triond pays you to host your work on their websites.

I've been with Triond now for about 1 year, and I've made over $120.00. Some may look at this figure and be amazed that so many can be earned online on one site. Others will look at it and think it is a waste of time. But I have a word of warning for everyone. It is neither amazing nor a waste of time. I have only written 35 articles to date on Triond, and I've earned that much from them. 35 articles take very little time to write, and yet I've earned $120.00 from them. Not only that, but I will continue to earn from those articles, and any new articles I may choose to write, forever. For the time it takes to write one article, I will continue to earn cash for the rest of Triond's existence. That's no waste of time in my opinion. There are users on Triond who earn far more than me, and you or I could match them if we so choose. All you have to do is dedicate some time to Triond, believe that it can help you earn extra cash, and in no time at all you will be earning that extra cash. Triond has done wonders for me. It has improved my writing skills, it has given me extra cash to spend on things that I want to buy, and it has given me more confidence in my journalism skills. It can do this, and much, much more for you too. If you're interested, why not check it out now. It's just a click away. This may be your present, but Triond could be your future.

]]> Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:27:39 PST Spelling and Grammar Checkers http://www.writinghood.com/Writing/Spelling-and-Grammar-Checkers.274479 Every time you write a text document, as a letter or a simple email is important that your document be free of spelling and grammar mistakes. Documents without spelling and grammatical errors give a good impression about you. Check spelling and grammar of the documents takes time. There are useful tools that make checking easier: spelling  and grammar checkers.

Spelling and grammar checkers are software programs that help you to correct spelling and grammar and mistakes. Here is a review of some of the best that you can find in the internet:

SpellChecker.net

This online tool checks spelling, grammar and has thesaurus information. It is easy to use, paste the text in the box and press the button "Spell check". This online software is also verify text in, British English, French, Portuguese and other languages.

SpellCheckplus.com

This is an online spell and grammar checker. Highlight grammar errors and spelling errors. When you pass your mouse over the highlighted words shows grammar and spelling suggestions. Also, available in French. The free version has advertising.

Community.languagetool.org

It is a simply online spell- grammar checker available in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and other languages. We can use as an extension of OpenOffice.

Orangoo.com

Verify and correct spelling. Support up to 27 languages. You can verified text or websites.

When you use spell and grammar checker you need to be aware that the tool are not perfect. They are only helping tools that correct basic grammar and spelling. Sometimes these tools do not see great errors, miss prepositions and show texts with no grammatical errors as incorrect. If you have any dude about result of these tools use a dictionary or check grammar rules. Use two or three different tools to check documents. Remember these tools are not "English teachers", they only help you to improve your writing.

]]> Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:21:06 PST Best Ways to Make Money on Triond! http://www.writinghood.com/Style/How-To/Best-Ways-to-Make-Money-on-Triond.269125 Write your school/college reports on here

You've always dreaded those 5 page long reports you had to do for your stupid chemistry class, didn't you?  It doesn't have to be like that.  One way I have figured out how to make a lot of money is to just add your school reports on here.  There are numerous benefits  to this strategy.  One benefit is that you get constant, school-like articles on a regular basis, which you have to do anyway.  Another benefit is that you will actually work harder on your school reports.  You got nothing to lose anyway, you have to write it anyway, and the worst that is going to happen is that a couple are going to get rejected.

Diversify!

No, I'm not your local stock broker, although I have the same kind of tips.  Diversify!  The logic behind this is that if you just stay on one subject then you will only get a certain percentage of an audience, which we don't want.  We want everyone to read our articles.  Let's say one person sees your blog, and really likes it, so they check our your profile and read your other articles.  This will probably happen a lot of times if you diversify a lot.  Now let's say you only write articles for science topics, because you really like them and you are fairly decent at writing them.  Only a small percentage of people are going to read your articles and its most likely going to be one or two guys following what you write, but if you diversify, you can have plenty of people that follow your blogs.

Advertise!

Not much to say on this because this site explains it fairly well.  Start spam advertising every site know to man.  Sure, most people are just going to ignore it, but there will be some people that really get interested in this and pass it on to there friends or "digg it."

Well thanks to everyone that listened, good luck getting rich.

]]> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:44:32 PST An Absolutely Legitimate, Free and Fun Way to Make Money Online http://www.writinghood.com/Online-Writing/An-Absolutely-Legitimate-Free-and-Fun-Way-to-Make-Money-Online.243099 There are a few ways out there to make money online. I found a few sites that were legitimate--you won’t get rich quick like others promise, but you will make a little extra spending money. For stay at home moms (like me) it helps when you want to take the kids for a little treat once in a while. I will share with you what I know--for free!

A lot of places promise that you will get rich quick. You fill out all this information about yourself just to get to the end of the registration and find out that you either have to sign up for some kind of magazine subscription or you have to pay for a list. Just a little heads up-- after you pay, you will get a list, but it is usually outdated so it does you no good. Then there is the mystery shopper job. I still haven’t found a site for this where you don’t have to pay for a list. I think the safest thing to do is probably to call the company you want to work for and ask them if they hire mystery shoppers. I really don't know how to get a job doing this, but I have looked hard to find one! If I do, I will let everyone out there know and I won't charge! I think it's so unfair how people do that!

Anyway, those are things I have found that don’t work. Then, I was looking on craigslist one day and saw for my state where you can look up writing jobs. They directed me to a site called print and post. There I found out that you can write blogs, stories, poems or just upload pictures--anything you want as long as it is your own work. I’m sure they probably don’t want really offensive things either, but you can check (not that I expect anyone wants to be offensive). From there I was directed to Triond where I opened an account. I have uploaded pictures and researched some things then I wrote a little research story about it. If you have a computer, you can research anything! And you can upload pictures as long as there is no copyright on it. And please, don't write things word for word when you find information. That is stealing someone else's work! After you write your piece and fix it just the way you want, you upload it to Triond. From there, they will publish it on the web for you. They made it so easy to do!

After your blog, picture, etc is published, companies will put their advertisements on it for people to see when they click on it. Make your piece interesting so more people will go to it. The more people who click on your site, the more you will make. Now you won’t get rich from it, but like I said you will make a little extra spending money. And the more you get published, the more you will make. You get paid once a month and it's fun to keep track of how much you are making and how many people visit your site.

Another free way to make money online without any upfront costs is to view paid emails. There is a site that I have found called Hits4Pay. They will pay you ten dollars to sign on and then for every email you read, you get paid two cents. Now you won't get rich quick, but those two cents begin adding up and you can earn a little extra spending money in time. If you have lots of friends, you can refer them to this site and earn when they view emails too. This can really add up fast! To get to that site, simply click on this link: http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?SueB

As I find other sites to help you earn money while you are at home with your kids, during your free time, or even as an easy part time job, I will let you know. I update this site often to keep it fresh, so check back! I will never put a site on here that costs money or that I haven't joined and know is safe. It takes a while because there are so many "tricks" out there, but they are out there to be found--and they are FREE!

Go ahead and try it--it’s absolutely free and it’s really fun! Good luck and God bless!

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