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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.

There will be most likely no major fuss for the great majority of Triond publishers. Average articles get less than 100 views per month and, with the 50/50 revenue sharing split, you’d be lucky to get one click per month. It could, however, scale if you have tons of content published.

It has been said that Adsense pays better than YPN lately. Let’s just wait and see how Google will evaluate Triond’s pages and how high the eCPM will get.