Trivago.co.uk needs people who have time to share their knowledge on places (tourist attractions), accommodations, or even websites that they have visited before and happy to share them to other travel lovers. There are mentors and members who are supportive enough to make things manageable to ensure my postings are ok and well credited.

Frankly, yes the shares matter (for the effort/time/resources) but being a member of this on-line community that have the same objective to makes others' travel enjoyable and hassle-free, I think that matters really is how you share your effort to build-up the database and eventually promote the places that I have been visited or in my case the place where Im currently residing now.

Trivago can build up good relationships with other dedicated members without much of competition (in terms of who is the best writers or who get much or the popular buddies/COTs) but rather helping each other to maintain the philosophy of the site. I think, sometimes it needs additional hardwork (as compare to other consumer sites) to step on the various levels which only show how much every member contributed in the site.

At first, it was tricky, disappointing but at the end it is rewarding. There are always members or the mentors who will always extend their assistance if things went wrong. For example, like SaschaT (Sascha), koshkha (Barbara) who are very supportive to new members.

Finally, inviting people to the site is really good. This is not one time bonus points, but you get 30% (continuously) from the total shares earned by the new recruit. So if the new recruit is active then the chances of getting better earnings are high!

And again, trivago can be promoted as 'partner link' to your existing personal blogs or journals and having that you get additional shares. A good example of this is my travel blog account which trivago is link to each all my journals.

http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/digital_explorer/

Give it a try and we are happy to assist you, making your membership a worthwhile experience! It is tricky but it is requires dedication to making the membership rewarding!

NOTE: Thanks Barbara for the tips and advice! Very much appreciated!