I’m not so sure that anything happens. You get a badge with a new number… ?!?!

You know, on a job site there was someone saying that if you write a hundred articles on Triond, you make a lot of money… I think it’s safe to say that he/she has never tried it before. I am pretty sure it has to do with the views and not the number of articles, although obviously it correlates to some extent.

Technically you can have a website with a few hundred pages, but if no one is visiting it then that is all you have. I am pretty sure the same thing happens at any other place. Unless you have visitors, you have a pile of articles and nothing more…

Does that sound cynical to you? Although, writing and stuff is fun anyway!!! I am guessing that you will find out soon about the 100 articles at Triond thing though~! I hope something magical happens for you other then getting a new badge!

If you were to write 100 articles, you will get more views. But this is for any number of articles – 99, 101, 1000. The more you write, the more views you will get every day. Triond wise, of course.

More sophisticated Content Websites like Squidoo give rewards to users who write a lot of high quality articles. I’ve only written 20 or so Squidoo lenses (another name for articles) in my whole Content Career. In exchange for my efforts, I received a badge, a yellow star, and a bunch of comments. I was also given the opportunity to recommend one of my articles to the Squidoo staff so they could promote it for me.

I’m not knowledge of the other writing websites you listed.

But, BASICALLY, the more you write, the more views you will get. It’s as simple as that. Nothing magical happens at 100 articles written, or 200, or 10,000. It’s all exponential growth that adds up overtime.

100 articles on Triond should make you a small residual income. Some of my articles here make a few dollars every month and have done for several years. Others have made less than $1 over the same period. Others still make $15 in a few days but then tick over at a dollar every now and then. (None of these figures include anything made from adsense).

The best aspect of writing for Triond though is that you can see what makes money and what was a total waste of time. This is instructive. On sites such as Xomba where a few years ago we were making $thousands a month the facility to quantify is limited to what articles you can quantify via your adsense interface with url channels. Each new version wipes out the old statistics. Nobody makes much there at them moment – actually when the new Xomba was introduced they almost banned making money, took away the referral 10% and said it was now a writers community – they made a U turn on that recently – we can now use it to promote our own sites again and put urls in titles.

Hubpages gives a constant ticking over of a lowly adsense amount but sends lots of traffic to my owner sites.

The big pee off is that since panda my owned sites have done much better than any of those I mention above and certainly according to the writer on Squidoo. None of them have 100 pages yet.

Wow! I really appreciate it that you guys took the time. I welcome anyone else’s contribution. Fascinated that although Hubpages is down that it is brings traffic to a site and I look forward to my new Triond badge