Introduction

I started writing on Triond.com in December of '08 and was literallly making pennies a day and was elated to make $1.82 for the month ending in January. I was happy that Triond graciously published my work for the first time but I was looking more than just being published. I was looking for monetization

I moved to HubPages and was satisfied with GoogleAdsense and how you can manage your GoogleAds unlike Triond.com. Then I did more research with the help of the Google search engine and discovered eHow.com

I liked eHow.com because of the ease in which to write in steps with less verbage and the fast payoffs. I have made my first $10.00 and half way toward my next.

I justwith their testimonies about the site. Squidoo encourages you to write as if talking one on one to another person.

However, the site is a bit confusing with it placements of modules for the lens. Squidoo calls their articles lens and Hubpages refer to their articles as Hubs. No one has yet to visit my three articles after three days so I think that the specialization of the site blocks readers from easily navigating to the articles. I am a prolific writer at HubPages having written 199 articles in three months time with a readership of about 16,000.

There is a module for YouTube, Flicker and the Delicious networking site on Squidoo. These specialization modules may seem to make it easier to write an article but it makes for too many steps and options when writing. You may find yourself writing something twice because of the number of options. The best rule to follow is when the module says optional, just disregard it.

I cannot comment on the money making feature having been a member for only three days. I can say that you have a choice of getting payoffs at different levels like $5, $10, $15 or $1million. Yes the site have the option for you to select $1 million all in fun. Also Squiddo seems to be more charitable than Hubpages as there is an option to give your pay to charity.

Hubpages have the rule of offering payoffs of $100 monthly and that can take several months. One hubber said that sometimes it takes about nine months to earn the $100.

Again, in Hubpages how much money you make is up to your ad placement and what you choose as affiiations. After three months on HubPages, I have capped out at about $71.00 and have read that the community leader at Hub made $1000 a month. So I am sure that the community leader knows about how to place the ads to optimize monetization. Ad placement is the key and the king at HubPages. I found the community leader on the Hubpage forum about how to make money onn HubPages added Squidoo a few days ago so the readership have not found me yet. Out of the three writing, Triond is in fourth place, eHow is in third place, Squidoo is in second place and HubPages is in first place with first place being the best.

About HubPages

I have been writing for pay now for about three months and can honestly say that HubPages is the more professional managed writing site. Unlike Squidoo that have a rating system and accepts all types of writings, Hubpages do not accept anything but G rated material. But it is not the cleanliness of HubPages that makes it better, it is the writers who help each other with questions about navigating around the site for their different purposes.

HubPages almost forces you to read about managing GoogleAdsense because you are the one who manages your own ad placement and size of the ad. Hubpages is almost like an office building of useful departments to help you accomplish your goals whether it is to make more money with Google Adsense,increase your eBay and Amazon royalties or to locate interesting topics from the Forum or the new Q&A section.

About Squidoo

Squidoo is very conversational and the prose on the website welcomes you with picture of people .

About EHow.com

EHow is a very easy site to navigate and to make money. They pay you in $10.00 increments and I would have made more if I had not spent so much time on HubPages. You write about a How to process in three steps with less verbage than Hubpages. There is a spell check option on the site that is likeable. There is the popular share it widget that has all of the social networking sites and writing sites connections for article promotion.The monthly earning is reflected on your home page of the eHow and the overall earnings can be retrieved with a click on the left side of the page.

The community does not seem to be as interactive as Hubpages ;however, you are able to form a group to get a conversation started. However, everyone seems to be concerned about their processes as the website is about how to do accomplish tasks, The conversations are minimal nd the site appears lonely.

EHow has one advantage over HubPages. The site allows the writer to see how each article is doing without the writer going through the difficult processes of Google analytics. The word analytics is somewhat scary at HubPages.

I just concentrate on looking at the stats on the edit page of Hubpages to see how the article is performing. Also the Stats icon on the edit page lets me know what social networking site that I need to distribute the article along with the number of readers from Ask.com, AOL, or Delicious.com for examples.

EHow has a chart of all of your articles that lets you know exactly how many people have read your article. The falacy however is that eHow will sometimes delete the unperforming articles so it is to your advantage to try to save them if you see that no one is reading them. You should audit your articles daily on eHow and not wait for the staff to delete the articles.

A few writers have protested to eHow about their deletion process but what can you do if the article is no longer there unless you saved the article in Word document before publication.

About Triond.com

It is odd that I am writing about Triond.com last when it is the first writing site that I stumbled upon on the Google search engine.

Triond has recently upgraded the site with a tour for newcomers complete with voice activation. The site has the share it widget in which to distribute your article to social networking sites but the monetization needs to be improved.

When I first started Triond, I joked with the kids when the payoff on the page indicated 0.02. There are writers on the site now that write for the satisfaction of being published and joke also about their payouts of pennies at a time. It took about a month to make $1.82 and that is when I decided to look at the Google search engine for other writing sites with a better monetization system.

The satisfaction of receiving an email for the first time from Triond.com indicating that your article "Has Been Published" is an immeasurable feeling for someone who may not think they are a good writer. You feel like you have won the ClearingHouse Sweepstakes until later when you realizee that most of the writing sites will publish your work.

American Idol and Online Advertising

The objective of onlne writing is to get readers to read what you write and respond to the ads. The process is very similiar to television commercials. When you watch American Idol and sit through nine or ten commercials back to back and sometimes repeating, you begin to get the picture. The commercials or advertisements are very expensive because of the 36 million people that the TV marketer knows is watching. With 36 million people watching American Idol, the advertisers are hoping that the consumer either select their next car the Idol contestants are promoting with a video or will pick up the hair shampoo that was just on a commercial during the show. The Triond.com staff as well as other writing sites are looking for the ads to bring in revenue to keep up operations and for salaries.

It takes a while to get to this realization that the bottom line on these writing sites is to catch the internet surfer's interest for a sale of a good of a service. The correlation is there between the television commercial and the online Google Ad. The only difference is that the Google Ad is not as interactive as the television commercials unless the tekkies use a video advertisement.

While you are pouring out your interests on the internet, the site is making what you write professional to sell the product or service on the GoogleAd. You are looking to submit content to the online editor on Triond.com for publication and selecting from the tags to steer in readers. Great relationship between Triond.com and other writing sites with GoogleAds exist.

However, when you look at the bright neon green dollar sign on Triond.com with $1.82 after amost 150 articles and three months of your time, you begin to take a second look. Maybe Triond.com is not distributing proceeds from the ads as generously as HubPages, eHow or Squidoo.

You realize that your time is valuable also and that it is great to be published but the worth has to be more than mere pennies. That is when you either move on and continue to be appreciative of being published on Triond.com not knowing that there are other writing sites out there that pay more. You learn that it may not be just the quality and quantity of your writing but the advertising and promotion of the writing site that may be at fault.

So what do you do when you have tested Triond, HubPages, Squidoo, and eHow. You move maybe to Helium.com. Stay tuned for my review on Helium as a monetized writing site and what the site offers in ways of writing fulfillment and monetization.

And the Beat Goes On