(Photo Credit - Rohan 810)
(As posted on Triond)
On
the 25th August 2008 I posted my first piece on Triond, a poem
called “Hello Reader”. A lot of water has gone under the bridge since then.
Here are some highlights.
I have posted poems, stories and “blogs” on Triond
since 25th August, 2008. As the description says, my first posting
was “Hello Reader” (poem) which attracted 18 Views and Earned $0.02 from
Triond. Then I posted some more poems and a few stories from my computer
“stock”. My 2nd posting was a short story entitled “Beyond the
Beyond” which received 39 Views for $0.05. Views remained modest for a while. I
received some great comments but soon became aware that VIEWS were what
Trionders sought.
So on 1st March 2009 I posted a blog
Love, Sex and…Taglines” in which I tried to attract more views using lots of
SEO keywords and tags. Result: 17 Views! On the 3rd of March I wrote
a blog about this and got 23 Views. So much for THAT. Later I tried more
keyword packed blogs with similar results.
Maybe I should have written some imaginary but
believable stories about hated public figures. Wink, wink.
On 26th September 2010 I wrote a blog “My
Career in the Grimsby Table Tennis League”. Surprisingly that attracted 108
Views (my best then). A minority sport played in a little known town. Strange.
And my table tennis blogs have consistently Viewed well ever since.
My Personal Best was again broken on 14th
November 2010 with “Sexy Writing” – 179 Views, which had NOTHING sexy in it. Ha
ha. It was just about my writing etc.
Then on 28th December 2010 came blog
“Agnosticism” – 246 Views. Ha yes, religion and philosophy attract good Views.
And on 1st April a blog about Freud and psycho-analysis polled 539
Views. Around this time my poem “Summer” got 180 Views – unusual for a poem –
on 31st May 2010.
My Blog “Single” was my next Personal Record
Breaker: posted 3rd October 2010 on the “Beyond Jane” Triond site it
received 827 Views after spending a week on that so important “Most Popular
Article” or “Trending” List.
My next “biggy” was my blog “Listen” with 693 Views,
posted again on “Beyond Jane” (7th October, 2012).
Then came my Personal Best: blog “Beat the Bullies…”
(19th November 2012) on “Beyond Jane” with 38,679 Views as I type,
for earnings of $7.90. This is still Viewing well every day. 48 today when I
last looked. No, 59 now. (2,212 this month).
When I first joined Triond my “Geo Distribution” was
about 45% USA, 45% UK, 10% The Rest. Since “Bullies” that has all changed.
Today my Distribution is 91% USA, then Turkey, UK, France and Brazil each 2%,
followed by 1% Germany and 0.96% Romania. Needless to say, most of my Views
came for “Beyond Jane” – until recently.
“Bullies” now has a Challenger: I call it my “Paedo
Piece” – a blog on paedophilia, posted on “Healthmad” on 25th July.
It has received 139 Views today and rising. 5,667 or more this month. 14,135
overall.
“Paedo” got 300 Views per day at first (370 on the
29th). Then on the 30th it hit the MPA List and scored
3116. The next day it got 4,870. Then 2426 on the 1st August. At
this point it dropped off The List and got 374 on the 2nd. From then
it averaged about 320 for a good while. Recently, however, it has gone tandem
with Bullies for a while before surging up again.
It will be interesting to see if “Paedo” catches up
with “Bullies”. In the meantime other blogs have scored okay too: “Triond
Tragedy” 868, “Freedom in Poetry” 526, “Grimsby TT League season 2013-14” 812…
Frankly I have no idea why “Bullies” and “Paedo” went
viral (by my standards) in America. A similar thing happened on my own poetry
blog where my poem “Mirror, Mirror” got 7161 Views. Seems with bullying etc.
America takes a morbid interest. When I posted a blog about the USA being World
Cup heroes I received the grand total of FOUR Views lol. Nuff Said.
PS I just Googled “Why is Bullying such a big issue
in the USA?”: there were over a million results. School bullying featured most.
But it’s a World problem too. Did the same for “Paedophilia”: 360,000 results
with mention of Hollywood… Doesn’t seem to explain my Viewing figures, or does
it?
Paul
Butters
(Written 15\8\2014)
PPS for My Blog (23\8\14) – Ironically this very piece went viral on Triond. Right now it has had 9,872 Views having just left the “Trifter” Most Popular List. It is catching up with the Paedo Piece (18,974), and Bullies (39,592). It has even had a comment too.
26\8 Update: Suddenly yesterday things changed: Paedo got 264 Views, Bullies 71 and Triond VR 62. Watch this space.
10PM Update: Triond VR 10,384 Total Views, Paedo 20,367, Bullies 40,001.
29\8 - 81 Views today for my brand new Triond post "Crake Cake" - trending on "Notecook" already, as is a post by Rosalie Avin on 9\11 and terrorism! I was expecting mine to be put in Healthmad but 9\11 on a cookery site, oh my.
Paedo has had 364 Views today, Bullies 63 and Triond VR 27 (with "Assertiveness Blog" 1 View - which happens often!). Business goes well. My own Cake Crake blogger blog has drawn 7 Views too.
10\9 - Paedo Piece is forging on at a high rate now. Bullies is still moving too. "Crake Cake" is still going well but Triond VR ground to a halt a few days ago. My poems and stories still do not View however. Withernsea Wanderers AFC story got 6 Views and poem "Quiet" got 4 (but received 229 on "Hello Poetry" website to press after trending there).
