Hello Justin, and welcome to Steemit.
Yes, you really should have invested in Steemit back then. After I first heard of it, I too waited for a year before I could buy any. But even at the current prices, it seems as if the uptrend will continue, so it might be a good idea to put a bit of money into bitcoin.
Meanwhile, you can just try to earn Steem!
Below are a few basic points of advice re posting on Steemit.
- Longer posts are more lucrative than short posts. If you make a post of 20–30 paragraphs, it's more likely to earn rewards.
- Include some photos, images or graphs, to complement the text.
- Make sure the text and photos are formatted properly, so that your post looks attractive and appealing.
Hope this helps for now.
Good luck, and Full Steem Ahead!
This is so good, thank you.
I also notice that you get alot of income from few votes. Do you know what the numbers mean besides my name?
The number beside your name is your "REPUTATION SCORE." Everyone on Steemit starts with a score of 25. Based on your number of posts, your comments and replies, and your upvotes, your score will increase (or maybe decrease). Details here ... https://steemit.com/steem/@sevinwilson/complete-overview-of-reputation-score-how-it-s-calculated-and-how-to-increase-it-reputation-score-table-included
As for "a lot of income," in fact, I have not earned a lot of income over my 2.5 months. However, I did "Power Up," which basically means to "buy Steem Power" (instead of just earning it).
As implied above, there are 2 ways to get additional Steem Power (SP). One is to earn SP, by posting, commenting, replying, and upvoting. The other way is simply to buy SP.
Since I plan to be active on Steemit for a long time, I decided it was best to Power Up by buying Steem Power. That's where most of my current Steem, SBD, and SP came from.
You’re really awesome. Thank you for explaining in detail for me. I understand more now and I hope other steem users who read this will also learn from it.
I’m also planing to stay longer here in steem same as you. So maybe I will start doing the same thing as you gaining more reputation point and buying steem power in the near future.
I hope we could get big here in steem.
Glad to help. And I'm glad we have this great platform that allows and encourages this help.
Keep plugging away ...
how do you get to know that a follower is bot or individual? Also i believe originality and breathrough works are more important than length but most such content is buried under flood of blogs.
Hello @rainsa.
I'm not sure if any "followers" are really bots. From what I understand, bots are involved in UPVOTING, and they are usually identified as bots on their home page or in the comments.
Originality is of course important, but if you make a decent post of original material with only 5–10 paragraphs, it will probably earn only a few cents, or maybe a few dollars.
If, however, you expand the same post to 25 paragraphs or more, ensure that the writing is of great quality, with some photos, graphs, and other images to add some color and visuals to the post, then your post will appear much more professional, and definitely get a better response. And if certain whales see your post, chances are that they will give you a nice, big upvote, and maybe even promote your post.
Of course, there are some Steemians with lots of voting power and lots of followers who might make $10-$20 or more for very short posts. But most short posts earn next to nothing – as a quick glance at any topic feed will clarify.
Hope this helps. Best of luck as you Steem forward.
Oh cool thanks for this information I hope other people also learn something from this like me. I will start making great post with longer and better content in the near future. I hope someday I’ll be some of the big whales also
Thanks for your steem intellect, it will help us with fresh insights into posting. Will you please go through my posts i joined 3 days back and give a feedback because i believe it is quality which should be promoted.
Yeah it get hards to get noticed when our post got burried under flood of blogs and it make it hard for new bloger
Yes, indeed. It's very hard to get noticed. My first month, I spent lots of time making posts of good, relevant content, and since I'm an editor, I made sure the writing was perfect. Most of those early posts got very little response, and were soon lost in the ever-flowing Streeeeeeeeeeeem.
So, I started curating, reading lots of other posts, finding posts that interest me, upvoting them, commenting on them, reading the replies, replying to the replies. Then, slowly but surely, my number of followers started to increase, and my reputation score also started to increase.
Clearly, only posting is not enough. You must also engage in curating, reading, commenting, upvoting. Every day, if possible.
You may not see results immediately; it's a long-term process to build the Steemit community and to build your own community on Steemit.
But eventually, you will notice that your reputation, your followers, and your rewards are all increasing, slowly but surely. Then, you keep plugging away, towards further success.
If you are interested in blogging, etc, Steemit's the finest platform for that. I've been on other platforms and even started my own blog, but self-promotion is not my forte, so I found it impossible to succeed on those sites.
This platform is entirely different. With consistent effort, I've already achieved more "success" than I did on any other platform.
So, I'm simply going to keep posting more and better content, as well as curating. I know I won't be earning a lot of income for the next 6–8 months or more. But it will be very interesting to see how much is in my Steemit Wallet in one year's time.