Why is duplicate content bad?
Why is duplicate content bad?

I guess the answer is clear. We have to decline many content submitted to us on account of it being duplicated. Duplicate content has 2 major flaws.

First, it usually infringes copyrights. Even if the content is not plaigiated, and is your sole work of creation, publishing it on several platforms infringes the copyright of the publishing service, as your agreement with the service states. For example, if you write an article and publish it both with the New York Times and the New York Daily Tribune, something is wrong there. Same goes for the Internet.

Second, we strive for quality content. Duplicate content is not quality. It deters readers that have already seen it elsewhere, and it sabotages marketing efforts. And since our aim is to monetize content, it should be of sufficient quality. If it is duplicate, it is insufficient.

It’s been a hefty month at Triond, so loaded with action that we barely had time to put up new posts in the blog. A lot of things going on behind the scenes, but for most it is not yet the right time to share. As you can see for yourselves, the numbers of new signups and new published items keep increasing on a daily basis.

We changed the homepage a bit, and added a new subsection in the right-side column, showing the most active members. We think it is nice to know who’s doing what, especially if it is your name that you see written up there. It also gives a competitive twist to publishing more content. Remember, one of our elementry guidelines is the more you create, the more you earn.

We put up some new content sites, among them are sites for creative-writing, in which stories and poems are published. We are also proud of our new Chinese content site, at http://www.nisha.cn, and we are excited at the opportunity the Chinese market offers. History and experience tell us that niche sites, be it niche-by-subject or niche-by-language, are usually better performing.

That’s it for now,
Keep Creating!

Today we launched the RSS feature for our content websites. Since many internet users enjoy the ease and convenience of RSS and use it to stay up to date with their favourite websites, we believe it is a very important feature. We have had many requests to supply some sort of way to be informed when new content is added to sites, to follow up article’s comments, to be informed of new items by a specific content creator etc. So we believe that RSS feeds are the best solution.

There are 4 types of RSS feeds available:

1. Feed for new items on a channel (that also includes the home channel of a site, that is, the complete site).
2. Feed for new items on a specific tag.
3. Feed for new items by a specfic content creator.
4. Feed for new comments on a specific item.

Accessing the RSS feed is very simple: no matter what kind of feed it is, there is one standard “subscribe” button in a box on the additional info column, that links to the RSS feed that is releavant to the page you’re viewing. For example, if you are on the homepage of a site and press the “subscribe” button, you will get the whole site’s feed. If you’re on a tag page and press “subscribe”, you’ll get the tag’s feed, etc…

We are very happy with this new service, and hope it will be helpful to our content sites surfers.

Today we introduced a step that I am sure will please our PayPal using users. We dropped the minimum payment via PayPal to a mere $0.50. So far, minimum payment for all payment methods was $50.00. As of now, users choosing to receive payments via PayPal will only have to cross the 50 cent boundry each month, and not the 50 dollars boundry.

I would also like to remind our users, that in order to receive payments, some mandatory information has to be filled in. That includes full name, country, state/province and city. Users who still haven’t filled in this information, and wish to receive payments for current month, should update the missing details by the 15th of July on the “My Account” page.

Keep Creating!