Over the last few months I kept bumping into a “challenge” on Triond: people are either trying to get 1,000 articles by the end of 2010 or make $1,000 in any given 30 days (there are at least two versions of the challenge). Judging by my not-so-good experience with Triond, to say the least, I might say these people are fucking nuts.
I almost shat a brick when I heard of writing 1,000 articles for Triond. My ever best paid article with them is some fashion writeup that brought me a whopping *drumrolls* $0.93 in one and a half years. Yes, that’s 93 cents, I shit you not. Multiply that by 1,000 and my top earnings would be $930 for 1,000 articles. Thanks but no, thanks, I can sell them on DP for $3-4,000.
The second version is even scarier. At a pay rate of $1-$2 per 1,000 views, you’d need 1,000,000 hits per month for the $1,000 mark. And no, traffic exchanges don’t count. So good luck spamming your friends on FB–1M hits in a month is a lot of traffic!
I’d rather post 1K articles on my own sites or even sell them for hard, cold cash. So no, I’ll pass this challenge.
