Our accountant called me the other day and told me he noticed a “constant increase in an expense marked as user royalties over time”. He wondered whether we should be worried about it… I laughed and told him that in our line of business, this is nothing but great news!
Your February earnings were “PayPaled” and mailed by check today. Please check for them in your PayPal account or mailbox.
Great news to all our users with video camera phones.
3gp is a widely used format for video recorded on 3rd generation cellular phones. If your cellular phone uses this format to store video files, you can now upload them, with no need to convert them to something else.
The “Hot Content” section of Triond is very important. Besides giving you some nice links to follow in order to read very interesting and popular articles, or see some popular images, audio and video, it also provides very valuable information.
You can learn what content items are performing well, and try to understand why. Some of them perform well because they are related to very popular topics, other because they are very well written (or shot or recorded), and the list of reasons can go on and on.
So in order for you to see some more hot content, we’ve included a “More” link on the bottom of the “Hot Content” section. We hope you find it useful.
From time to time we give you a short list of topics that produced the most revenue, so that if you have something to contribute to this topic, it will probably generate more income than other topics.
Well, it’s time for that list again.
Here is the list of most profitable topics for February, split into media types, and sorted descending:
Text Articles:
Images:
Video:
Music:
As always, don’t force your creation to match these topics, but if you have a say on these it’s probably a profitable say 
.
A picture is worth a thousand words. Whether you like cliches or not, in the world of online content that’s definitely an axiom.
If you are publishing text articles with us, you should make it a habit to embed pictures, photographs or illustrations alongside your text. Well, where they are appropriate and relate to the content, of course, and not just throw them around your article. When you embed pictures with your content, you make your article more attractive and interesting to readers, and thus help to make the most out if its commercial potential.
Please remember though, that like the rest of your content, you are still required to be the copyright holder for what you publish, and that includes embedded pictures in articles.
You can see some examples in various articles that make it to the “Hot Content” section, such as this one and this one.
Those buttons just keep popping up on the “Published Content” tab.
Today we’ve added a new “Email This” icon. By clicking this icon, a new window opens on which you can send an email to your friends and family. This email contains a link to your content item along with it’s title and description, and you can also add a personal message if you wish.
We hope you use this feature to better promote your content.
And speaking of promoting your content, we put up a short guide on how to effectively promote your content using several techniques the Internet offers. You can access it through the links on the top of the homepage right after you log in (those links under “What Would You Like To Do Next?”), and there’s also a link on the “Help” page.
So be sure to read it and implement what you learn! Promoting your content wisely is an important step in maximizing the revenue it generates.
Remember that neat new icon on the “My Content” section that allows you to edit a content item? Well it got a friend, a “Share” icon. When you press this icon, a new window opens on which you can submit your content item to several popular sharing and social bookmarking sites. This is done via a service called AddThis.
It is very similar to the “Share It” row found at the bottom of each content item on our content sites, but now when it’s there on your content items list, it will be easier to share and promote your content.
So go ahead and press it, share your content with the world (that’s why it is a globe icon )!
Today we launched one of Triond’s most requested features. From now on you can submit fixes to your content items, whether pending publication, or already published.
Editing already published items – on the “Published Items” tab of the “My Content” section, you’ll notice an “Edit” column. This column shows an icon of a pencil. Pressing this icon will open a fix submit form, on which you can edit the title, description, or keywords of your item. You can also submit a new content file. Once a fix has been submitted, the pencil icon will switch to a clock icon, which means this item is pending a fix.
Editing items pending publication – on the “Waiting Items” tab of the “My Content” section, you’ll notice the same “Edit” column, with the same functionality (note that after submitting a fix for a waiting item, the pencil icon will not switch).
Another change that happened recently is on the “Publish” section – the content file for uploading is now the first field you choose, all the rest of the fields are in the same order as before.
We hope you find these features helpful, and that you use them to improve your content items!
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