As part of our ongoing efforts to ensure the best possible service, we’re starting a servers maintenance cycle. This cycle may result in some downtime for Triond.com and the publishing services (i.e. publishing may be delayed for a while).
Our content sites are less likely to be effected but it is still a possibility.
We apologize on any downtime. We will update you when the maintenance cycle is finished.
Update: A significant portion of the maintenance is already behind us. We are aware of some occasional “blank” pages, and stats graphs that are not yet loading properly. Publishing is still on hold as well.
Update: Publishing is now working again.
Update: “Blank pages” are gone and stats graphs are showing. At this point everything seems to be functioning properly. Please let us know if you are still experiencing any problems.
In the last few weeks, some of you have noticed that we have started experimenting with a Google AdSense integration. As the level of speculation rises, we would like to shed some light on this issue.
The integration is part of our efforts to provide new ways for you to earn more revenue from your work. Google AdSense is one of the most lucrative ad networks out there. However, it does not allow to conduct any type of revenue share on the revenue generated from its ads unless conducted in an integrative manner. This is the reason why we were not able to use it the way we’re used to with other ad networks (i.e. deal with it ourselves and save you all the trouble of dealing with it yourself). Then again, we couldn’t ignore it’s potential so we decided to hand the choice of either using it or not to each and every one of you.
The reason the integration is being unrolled slowly is to enable us to thoroughly test it on increasing scales. We have allowed a few Triond users access to it so they can help us test it, and more users are being (randomly) enrolled every day. Once we feel the integration is running smoothly, everyone who published at least three textual articles will be enrolled and be able to sign up if they wish to.
In order to participate in this program, you will have to either associate your existing Google AdSense account with your Triond account or create a new one, and therefore you’ll have to agree and obey to Google AdSense Terms and Conditions.
If you choose to participate, Google AdSense ads will be served to several ad spaces in your pages instead of some of the ads that are currently being served, while the other ads will remain. This means that no additional ad space will be allocated on your pages.
Since the Google AdSense ads will be served on behalf of your Google AdSense accounts, Google AdSense will be responsible for paying you those ads revenue, not Triond. For your convenience, we will synchronize earnings data from Google AdSense into Triond on a daily basis, so you will be able to view your Google AdSense earnings in your Triond account along with your Triond earnings. Please remember that although this data is presented to you in your Triond dashboard, we can not guarantee its accuracy, and in any case, the data that you see in your Google AdSense accounts is the most valid one.
Since we’ll omit some of the ads on your pages in order to make room for Google AdSense ads, the portion of your payout that is paid by Triond may be slightly lower than before. But once you add the Google AdSense payout to the pile, your total earnings will be higher, as we will optimize the use of Google AdSense ads and serve them only to those locations where they generate more revenue than other ads.
You should also remember that Google AdSense has different payout thresholds than Triond. They also employ a different set of payment methods, and pay according to a different schedule than Triond.
Also be aware that Google AdSense splits the payout 50/50 between Triond and you, so in essence, the revenue split is the same as with other ads managed by Triond. The difference here is that Google AdSense pays your portion directly to you, while with other advertisers, Triond collects earnings from them and then splits 50/50 with you.
We hope that things are clearer now, and if you haven’t already seen the Google AdSense integration enabled in your account, you will soon.
Halloween is just around the corner and it’s time to collect your Triond treats!
Payments for earnings earned through the last day of September were sent today. Please check your selected payment method for additional information.
All our PayPal payees who have accumulated more than $0.50 in the last month, check your PayPal account. If you’re a Western Union or check payee, and you’ve accumulated more that $50.00 in your account, we’ve sent your payment as well. The Western Union payees will receive an email with a transfer number tomorrow (Western Union delay is due to the weekend). For those who receive a check, look out for a Triond envelope in your mailbox over the next couple of weeks.
Payments for earnings earned through the last day of August were sent today. Please check your selected payment method for additional information.
All our PayPal payees who have accumulated more than $0.50 in the last month, check your PayPal account. If you’re a Western Union or check payee, and you’ve accumulated more that $50.00 in your account, we’ve sent your payment as well. The Western Union payees will receive an email with a transfer number shortly. For those who receive a check, look out for a Triond envelope in your mailbox over the next couple of weeks.
Over the last day, there was a problem inserting images directly from your computer files into Triond’s Online Editor. It was just solved and everything should be back to normal now.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.
Due to a technical problem, the Online Editor’s Insert Image feature is currently not working properly. However, while you are temporarily unable to upload image files directly from your computer, you may still insert images using the ‘Paste URL’ feature.
In order to use the ‘Paste URL’ feature, you must first upload your image files to any image hosting website, such as Picable (via Triond’s Submit Media tab), then paste the URL of the published image into the the Online Editor’s Insert Image window field, marked: From the web, paste the URL of the image.
The other way of working around this problem is to simply use the “Get Image Suggestions” button located to the right of the Online Editor’s Article Body field.
Our engineering team is working on solving this problem. I apologize for the temporary inconvenience, but we hope to have this problem solved as soon as possible.
There was a problem submitting content for the last 15 hours. It was just solved and everything should be back to normal. No data was lost.
It was one of these little things that you do in the back office (with intent to improve the service), which cause a chain reaction which in the end, affects all kind of functionalities that you didn’t think it would. In this case, submitting content. As soon as we discovered it, we worked intensely to resolve the issue and I am happy to say now that it was resolved.
Again, we deeply apologize for the inconvenience and we thank you for your patience.
It just got even easier for your friends to find you!
Today we added another new feature to your Triond profile page called the ‘Find Me On’ widget.
Many of you were asking for options to give links to your other social media accounts and blogs. We saw you were already posting your links on the About Me section and so we decided it was time to create a designated and organized area for this.
The ‘Find Me On’ widget allows you to link to your Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Digg and Blogger accounts in a user friendly manner.
To use it, just drag the ‘Find Me On’ widget to the area you want your links to appear, click on the wrench icon and enter your username for each website you use.
Make sure that the username you enter for Facebook is your vanity url name. For example, if your vanity url is www.facebook.com/josephsmith then enter ‘josephsmith’ in the widget.
Blogger usernames are found at the beginning of your blog’s url: [your name].blogspot.com. So if your blogger url is joe.blogspot.com, you’ll need to enter ‘joe’ as your blogger username.
For a demonstration on how to put the ‘Find Me On’ widget on your Triond profile page, watch this video:
Thanks to improvements made to our collecting system, we are happy to announce that your payments will now be available by the tenth of the month. This new pay date officially starts today!
Payments for earnings earned through the last day of July were sent today. Please check your selected payment method for additional information.
All our PayPal payees who have accumulated more than $0.50 in the last month, check your PayPal account. If you’re a Western Union or check payee, and you’ve accumulated more that $50.00 in your account, we’ve sent your payment as well. The Western Union payees will receive an email with a transfer number shortly. For those who receive a check, look out for a Triond envelope in your mailbox over the next couple of weeks.
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