Quality content attracts votes like flowers attract bees.
I have two accounts:
- @robwillmann - my main account that I first joined Hive with, and my main token holder.
- quality material on the blockchain.@threesteps - my curation account where I upvote
I really like giving upvotes to quality posts, and doing curation like this has really taken off. My curation rewards are increasing the more I do this and stake it all (duh.)
I've wanted to write about this for a while, and after a discussion about this in the CTP Telegram group, I decided to work on this for a bit:
Curation and rewards increase when you pick the best tags.
Why?
If you think of tags as reaching communities of people (real people), then imagine each tag is a tribe is a community. If you do it right:
tag = tribe = community = people
Imagine a diagram of circles where each circle is a tribe and they use a specific tag:
The 'sweet spot' is where the best content:reward happens. By writing quality content that would be of interest to different tribes, you can use multiple tags and generate more eyes on your content.
Some tribes (CTP, PoB, Alive, etc.) even reward in their own tokens and have a front-end blog platform for the hive blockchain. (Examples: https://ctptalk.com, https://proofofbrain.io, https://www.wearealiveand.social, etc.)
Writing posts that include these tribe's tags can earn you their tokens.
That means one way to approach this is to write content about something that would appeal to multiple tribes, then tag your content appropriately with the right tags for those communities.
Notice what I didn't do.
I didn't say arbitrarily tag your stuff with community tags just because there are people in that community. Use appropriate tags. This also prevents downvotes on your stuff.
Cool ideas and tag combinations for the win!
There's so many diverse communities on Hive, it's really easy to get distracted. I only have time to look at a few things so I don't stretch myself too thin (and thanks to @jongolson for pointing that out to me).
With that said, here's some things I am trying to help get good content out there and earn some tokens in the process. (Note: Think Zen-like tag picking. Pair some wine, folks.)
1. Publish Actifit reports via Actifit App & Tag with #alive + #iamalivechallenge
I just started walking 5K steps a day. I leverage Actifit on my walks and then post after I have the requisite 5K steps in. This earns me AFIT tokens.
I also just started the role of List Master for Erik G.'s (@flaxz) #IAmAliveChallenge and ebook. (More on this later.) Since this challenge celebrates being alive, and I feel most alive when I am doing a brisk walk I liked the idea of putting these two together.
Actifit mobile App puts #hive-193552 (the actifit community) and #actifit in the posts.
I can live with that. I've started walking, posting with the app, and adding my #IamAliveChallenge hashtags in there.
Because I believe in personal branding, I am also using #leadbyexample and tagging a lot of my stuff with that. That brings my tags to:
#actifit#sportstalk#hive-193552#IAmAliveChallenge#Alive
2. Write on Leo or CTP and reference their tokens. Tag with #ctp and #leofinance
This is a win.
In this combo, you write about CTP tokens and tag with #leofinance. This works because of the combined interest in cryptocurrency. You can largely do this in the other direction as well, and write about Leo Finance related crypto stuff and tag with #ctp since CTP has training on how to leverage Hive crypto.
I see folks doing this one quite a bit. With this method you can add a couple of other tags as well.
The entire point here is that you can really leverage other communities and tokens to build relationships and stack crypto related to the tag and community if you do it right.
Tags I use with my posts.
#proofofbrainI love their community. Dislike their frontend tag pickiness. (won't allow tags starting with a number when other frontends do.) Earns POB tokens.#leofinance- When I write about crypto, I use this one. Earns LEO.#ctp- my bread and butter. I am an active part of the ClickTrackProfit tribe. I stake and hold their tokens. Earns CTP tokens.#alive- I've recentlt started using this one on my #actifit reports (See above) to raise awareness of the token and group. Earns Alive tokens. Also #IAmAliveChallenge is another one you see used for this token and daily posting.#threestepstoday- I am building this one around my site, https://3steps.today as a way to build my brand. Earns no tokens but builds my brand.
Including hive crpto itself, that meas I stack: Hive, CTP, LEO, PoB, Alive, AFIT. Maybe not all in the same post, but often times I will use several of those, depending on the post.
What's YOUR tags of choice and why?
hint hint.I hope @elianaicgomes posts on this one and includes the link for the tag infographic.
I'd love to hear how you leverage different communities and tokens in your post. I am sure there's a lot of different combinations available.
Peace and love,
-Rob
hehe you already pointed a few tags to play there's no need for me to add more to the pot lol
Anyway, I have a post about it if someone wants to stalk my profile ;)
Nice post sir :)
Thanks I appreciate the kind words.
I love the graphic you have. A scavenger hunt on your profile would certainly answer most questions about tags. ;D
Thanks for sharing this. I am starting to get a grip on the tags.
I am wondering what tags to use for my affiliate programs that are not CTP related.
What do you guys use? I already use affiliate marketing and online marketing.
I get confused about how much non ctp links can go in the CTPtalk
As @robwillmann has said, I sometimes link out to a site I am discussing and will add a tag or two that are relevant to the topic and the site. If I'm talking about a bitcoin-related site then I'd add tags such as "bitcoin", "crypto" and so on.
There's a useful post about using tags here:
https://hive.blog/hivewatchers/@hivewatchers/the-game-of-tags-updated-guide-2020
Some very useful tips in this post! It can definitely help to get one's content more focused! Thank you for sharing this information. This is definitely a post to be bookmarked for future reference.
Thanks for posting this, Rob! I was having a real hard time with my last few posts trying to figure out what tags fit best. I was probably overthinking it which is something I often do. Anyway, I sent this to my blog for further reference. BTW, how far is 5K steps?
No problems, Lisa. Yeah getting tags right is a big deal. I mess them up still. :)
5000 steps is approx. 3.1 miles.
So, a 5K walk is 3.1 miles and 5000 steps. Cool! Those tags can be confusing.
Broken link https://thresteps.today
Fixed, and thanks!
Now I get a domain registry site.
Wow. So I misspelled my own domain. https://3steps.today is the domain. I think I know why I did it. I found out a few days ago through my own testing that ProofofBrain front end doesn't allow you to use tags in the tag section that start with numbers.
So I changed #3Steps.... to #ThreeSteps... and have been slowly going through my content to change it. Granted they could just use a different frontend (like peakd) that allows for the tags to begin with numbers, but it's better if I take that limitation into consideration rather than ask someone to change their workflow to use a specific type of tag. Anyway, in my zeal to not use 3's but 'three's, I wrote the domain out and didn't even consider that it wasn't right. Whoops. My bad.
Thanks, always fun trying to manage different interfaces.
Great post, Rob! Thanks for sharing it on Thursday Night Live today - I totally missed it the first time round.
I haven't used the Alive tag or Leo tag yet. As for Leo, I never felt qualified as I'm not really a crypto nerd, so your tip here is really valuable. I simply never thought about using Alive. Obviously, I will only use those tags when I post relevant content.
Reblogged.
No worries. I use this one myself sometimes just to re-read and focus on what I need to do on chain.
Right now I use the following:
The #alive tag is quite interesting. I bought the lion's share of the ALIVEM so I earn a considerable amount of alive for staking it. This community and token really work well together considering the aim of their tribe. I enjoy mixing the Alive tag with the #actifit tag for my posts about my walks around the neighborhood.
Great post I find this info very useful especially since I just got started with Actifit :-) I am too new to hive (about 4 months) to have favorite tags. I do use ctp, leofinance, & POB most often mainly because of my subject matter. 😀
Hi Rob. Thank you for this post. I often get a bit confused with this because I mostly write non-crypto, non-business articles. So I will have to research the right tags to use.
John,
Thanks for the kind words. I don't really write 'crypto'. I am more of a 'here's my journey and stats as a marketer' kind of guy. Let me take a look at what you write and let's match some stuff up. Of course you can always use some of the generic tags like
#neoxian #palnet
Go look at some of the posts by some of the CTP'ers and you will find them using those tags as well. I also recommend researching a little on peakd about the tribe, see if you can find out what they are about, and then embrace the ones you love. That's what's worked so far for me.
An example of one I use some times that really pays well AND has an audience that likes what I write and that I like to read is: #proofofbrain (and sometimes you will see #pob).
I hope this helps. -Rob
Hi Rob, Thanks for the advice. I didn't know about some of those tags. I will have to try them and research different communities. Have a happy Sunday!
Thanks amigo! I am going to check out your other post now :) (and followed you)