Nearly every new user I've signed on to this platform has asked me this question when they see the trending list. Maybe it's time we discuss it in the open and maybe try to answer it for our entire community and the world outside.
You logon to Steemit everyday and watch the trending authors get hundreds and thousands of votes resulting in payout value increasing to thousands within minutes, you take a quick gulp and wonder how in that world does this magic happen?
It's a difficult question to answer. I've racked my brains whenever I've gone digging into the blockchain to find some pattern to this behaviour. At the very forefront of these number of votes are also a large number of bots. Many owners of these bots who are supportive towards these regular users they vote on everyday. That as well as the curation rewards are too good to ignore which isn't a bad thing at all. I think this is what goes down somewhat in addition to a dozen secret slacks where the rich and famous live and prosper! Ha! (my first conspiracy theory on Steemit)
I'll give you my example
The usual number of votes on my posts range between 210-290 on a good day. Occasionally the number crosses 300 and very rarely 400. I've never been in the 500 votes (I would love to) and above hall of fame list.
I dont worry about the payout value as much as increasing visibility towards my work with a greater range of votes on my posts which clearly signifies higher engagement with my content. To me higher number of votes also signifies somewhat directly proportional and greater engagement levels.
Comments are a different type of engagement altogether. But even as my votes are comparatively low on my blog page, I've managed to trend on the top of the trending page 4-5 times, and great things are still happening with me.
Dear bot owners and whales, what is your general approach to voting?
Loyal Voters and Readers
The daily number of votes on my posts comes from a loyal set of readers, and for that I'm really thankful. Similarly, some of the people you see on trending are people who stuck around creating value, bringing people to the platform, networking with one another and did a splendid job of retaining engagement levels throughout the low phase (November-April) and today's that's paying off for them.
I came back from a forced sabbatical to open arms of incredible support and encouragement, post after post, comment after comment. This platform a year down the line continues to amaze me and hold my commitment and loyalty towards it! Even as I wish I was able to maintain my efforts through the past four months, nothing seems to be lost and I continue to make new friends and gain new readership by the day!
As I became more consistent with my writing everyday in the past three weeks, the number of votes have also increased, even if only marginally. The payouts have increased as well (also thanks to the Steem price doubling up). I continue to increase my Steem holdings which is what I've always wanted to do right from the start and vote on new and established users.
Remember, whether we like it or not, Value and Quality are two highly subjective things. The content you see with a high payout, the payout value again is a subjective matter.
Do our followers really 'follow' our posts?
I've gained 500 followers in about 3 weeks of coming back to writing on Steemit. I actively engage with hundreds of established and new authors per week and reply to every comment on my blogs.
But, even as I've got a good number of followers, the votes on my posts are quite low. It's quite hard to tell if people are actually following you or doing it for the sake of it to get a follow back from an established author. But ofcourse it is impossible to vote for all unless you go around voting with a 1% vote weight.
As you can tell I follow nearly twice as many people. That's because I have in the past and continue to actively curate content as much as possible. I dont find it too hard to go through hundreds of content in a day. This was a skill built up helping run Project @curie, @steemcleaners and the early days of @robinhoodwhale.
Do you check your feed everyday or once in two days? What is your approach?
Steem Price
Steem price undoubtedly has brought back many voters and users who were hibernating until recently. This has added to the overall engagement levels that you witness. It is time saving and easy for anyone to simply login and vote and curation rewards are a great payback for the time spent voting. Some do it manually like I do, others use bots and scripts!
Fact of The Matter Is
@kyriacos' piece, 'Does It Really Matter How People Make Money on Steemit?' throws some light on why this behaviour is justified! It's a must read!
The fact is that we're all here to make money, get rewarded for our efforts and use this platform to improve our lives and those around us basically trumps most other intentions of using this platform.
But there many people behind the scenes who are trying to make a difference in the long run and I think it's worth your while to support their initiatives and efforts and help them add more value to this place.
Many developers make the daily trending and without supporting developers, there won't be any of this software that we use. However, It's also important to remember that without active community builders, users engaging with one another and initiatives towards community building there won't be many people to make the fullest use of our platform Steemit today.
There are many incredible authors who are also missed out unintentionally so please look out for them. In addition to voting, please also try to leave a comment on the users content you vote for. Please network and support each other as much as possible!
Thank you for your attention and support!
If you like my work, please share my posts and follow my blog to support me. You may also continue reading my recent posts which might interest you:
- The Hands of an Artist!
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- LetsTalk—Why An Excellent Health Insurance Is a Necessity and How It Saved My Ass!
- Ike's 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air (B&W) Photoshoot!
That moment when you send @firepower a try-out drawing because of a new pentablet, and it ends up on one of his post. Touché - well done, sir.
I am not quite sure who is an active follower and who is not. However I would love to even reach 50 votes on a post. I think my highscore was a 100something.
There is a tool called Dead Followers, which can tell you the amount of inactive followers you have. Basically sums up your followers and if they have been online lately or not. http://steemit.deadfollowers.info/
I must say, I have a pretty nice rate?
This only answers some of the question about your followers, but doesn't do that completely. I guess we should have a tool similar to InstaFollow or something to check out who our actual, loyal followers are.
I know for one, that you and @roelandp often upvote my posts, thank you for that. I appreciate it a lot! Here some virtual love:
hug
I have nearly 19.5% dead followers. Thank you for this valuable tool. Probably going to unfollow the people who aren't following my work once in a while. I have a few who havent interacted with my a/c for months!
Thanks for the comment. Learnt about a new tool! Good job @sjennon!
That is an awesome tool, but I realized one thing. I am brand new, five days old and one of my followers is dead. How is that possible? It means that somebody, and I know who because they added a few bucks to a post by voting, has not posted but remains active. A lot of the vets don't post often but seem to vote up stuff on a regular basis. I wouldn't totally discredit all of your 19.5% dead followers. Since you have been here a while, some might be vets that don't post much anymore, but remain active.
Hug back at ya
I've been checking out who upvotes me and following them if they follow me and returning the favor...I would like to keep this as real as possible, besides I really like the information I've been coming across in posts.
@wvm I only follow back if the author has content that's interesting to me. Otherwise you end up with a feed filled with stuff you dont care for. This would make it a nightmare to go through my feed. But thats me.
True it's a healthy mix of loyalty and content that interests you. I just started on Steem but have been using other social media for personal use and blogging. Found a mix always works best to keep me sane but also grow followers.
Exactly! Keeping the ones who are loyal to you is very important :)
Of the 53 followers I have, 2 are "dead". That is 3.8% of my followers. Thanks for sharing that link.
Thats pretty good! And no problem :)
I am new in Steemit and event doesn't know how people vote us, i just knew how to vote juat a minute ago..
348 dead follower here lol
Pretty good for the amount of followers you have though!
8% dead, nice rate, 20% of my followers are dead.
That's pretty cool tool: https://steem.tk/ made by @vik (he's a witness on GOLOS) It's an analysis of the interaction of a given STEEM account, interaction with other users (votes for them vs votes from them), etc.
Oh sounds nice! I will check it out :)
Haha! I have 36 followers and all 36 are real but I hardly get votes from them all!
Ugh I know the pain :(
so all of my followers are dead .. Hmmmmm
Hey Thx for this interesting tool, gives an interesting perspective to the followers part of Steemit. But also reminds oneself of being active ourselves too since we may reflect as Dead followers in someones else's account too ;) being social is the main objective thats what we have to do be ACTIVE :)
Really like the way you closed out the post with the "Fact of the Matter is"...And followed through with listing Key points of Attention. 100% agree with your outlook here.
I came across your post as I just started browsing within the whaleshares tag. Not entirely sure what whaleshares is at the moment, but it has peaked my interests and I will do some more digging.
Steem On,
The Dream is Live
:)
This post received a 39% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @firepower! For more information, click here!
Fantastic! :)
Some great points, well thought write up – I think you get quite near to the secret of votes, trending and rewards – you are doing excellent too. I do certainly believe it is a combination of many little factors that make you successful – sure it is key to have the right relationship to big power holders but it is at least similar important to create either awesome content, be an interactor engaging with others from all levels or you are a great investor curating and using your power in a responsible way. The ecosystem and community is a special one for sure – I am pretty confident toeards a long-termed success. Thanks a lot for this great post.
Thank you so much @uwelang. I hope I can do better in the days to come and I hope you like my latest blog on the meetup! :)
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Good post! I am finding that you should first enjoy what you are doing rather than focusing on upvotes. You should sincerely be a contributor and good things should follow.
You are absolutely right! That's the right approach!
Thank you for sharing your honest opinion. I wanted to upvote your content as well as leave my thoughts !! The following quote is from you '' The fact is that we're all here to make money, get rewarded for our efforts and use this platform to improve our lives and those around us basically trumps most other intentions of using this platform.'' Is true for me . I just started to hear about a lot of good things from Steem. I heard that you could participate in a community even if you were not a content creator. But be rewarded for your efforts of loving to read research and learn. At the same time using your reputation and steam power to vote content you agreed with. I was drawn to the freedom and flexibility that steem provided because I need to make a living in a flexible way. While raising my three young children. So even though I was initially drawn to the site to be able to earn doing something I love having an opinion on content while raising my children. I choose to follow individual content providers that I share an intellectual view with! And so I can continue to be involved and learn while earning for being reliable ! Again thank you for your great article and your honesty and I will be following you and up voting any content which I share beliefs in. When I vote an article that I agree with i use 100% of my voting power. Being that I am now I think this is the correct thing to do but I do it because I agree with content.Looking forward to more of your content creation. Thanks
Thank you for the wonderful comment and taking your time to leave a proper feedback. It's a great feeling to read comments such as yours. I fully agree with you and I work on similar lines. I'm glad that you find my work interesting. I hope you like other articles I've written as well. Thank you for following me. I'vedone the same. :)
STEEM ON FIREPOWER!!!
Well, the ones who are still enquiring about the votes, I would like to say to those that, it's not something you should focus more about.
The first thing you should concentrate on is on the quality of the content you are providing. Try to be consistent. (I see @firepower is quite consistent with the articles). That's the time you start getting loyal followers irrespective of the fact whether you follow them back or not. They follows you coz they love to. :)
The second thing one should care about is curation. Engaging with others. At least that had been very helpful for me in my last week to get a lot of new (and targetted) followers.
And btw, voting does not determine the Earnings always. My second post on this platform got 67 votes and earned $60 only (payout completed) , whereas my third post (latest one) got just 45 votes, earned $70+ and its increasing. So you shouldn't care about how many votes you can gather, rather you should care about WHOM you are getting the votes from.
Surely someone with high reputation will give you better earnings, if that's something you care about (yeah everybody does a bit I know) :)
And at last, it all come backs to the relationship you maintain with fellow steemians. If someone feels that you are regularly following their updates, he will definitely check your content back :)
Another nicely written post @firepower
I don't know if Steem has any algorithm like fb, but it always shows me your post first whenever I visit my feed. Haha 😅😅
Good comment dude!
That's because the SP of each user is different and the same ones might not vote each time. Although higher votes means greater interaction with your account, atleast on the blockchain if not actual viewing of your content.
On a technical level, rep doesn't matter, only the SP held as far as votes go. :)
This is a really good post. I think it's really hard for the minnows to get exposure and therefore upvotes because we rarely make it to the trending pages and there are too many new stories appearing every minute so people just don't see you. I think it's super hard to break this cylce unless you come here and bring a significant following with you (like @jerrybanfield) or you have been here a long time and built up significant number of followers already through your steem power.
You make an excellent point. To be honest there weren't many users when I signed up and even then I struggled. My introduction wasnt seen for the initial couple of weeks but then as I networked and increased my efforts it started working out for me. If you are a social influencer or celebrity it is always easy to break into an platform.
I checked your account and followed you. I think you have an interesting story. I hope you will continue to blog further.
Thank you. I definitely have a bunch of ideas for blog posts. Now I just need to find the time to write them.
@lifeofpai is my handle. please read and follow if u like what u read
Do people here actually read or simply upvotes just for the sake?
I actually read the article or post before I upvote. But usually I follow and upvote people that follow and upvote me.
@wvm it's all depend.
Some high profiles, have been caught doing plagiarism.
Some are safe to upvote. I don't upvote those with too much monies already.
Mainly, look after the Newbies.
Well I'm new. ;)
@bullionstackers just started following you, checked your page out and looks like posts I'd read.
It's really hard to say that without accessibility to the metrics of our individual posts. All I can assume is that people who comment + around 30% of the voters might read it. This is again just a guesstimate. But for the daily trending authors it might be more or less.
Just compare the number of Views with the Votes for this post ;)
That was a real eye-opener, 102 votes, 50 reads and 24 replies (25 with this one...😀)!
Some people do read. Most don't it seems.
well said @justtryme90
I do most of my voting on AutoSteem so the majority of my views don't show up in Steemit.com. For the most part I curate art & photgraphy and target posts with a low amount of votes. I think about two thirds of my votes are automated (30 to 40 per day).
I also have a fair number of automated votes :)
I'm gonna be 100% honest here, I also upvotes articles without reading. Most of the time if I do I've been following the author for quite a while already so it's also a kind of loyalty thing for me. Lets say 35%/50% of my feed gets upvoted with out reading properly. I know it sounds weird, but I think that a lot of people do this but won't admit it.
@futurefood
There are others that following my curating, They following me base on my judgement.
https://steemit.com/experiment/@bullionstackers/experiment-4-junior-steemians-please-read-are-you-ready-to-be-upvoted-first-in-steemit
My takeaway is to just do what comes naturally and stay consistent about it. Keep interacting and building relationships. If that is the case, then it seems like just simple natural law and I can sure get with that.
It takes time to develop relationships. Agree with you that consistency is a good approach.
Good points there! :)
I have always wondered are upvotes random? Or do people actually follow individuals? I say this because Steemit is not as mainstream and I feel like others may check back every so often unlike fb where people log on multiple times daily...
I feel like getting more people onto the platform will make things more regular.
Posting valuable content is the key to success here .. That has been proven numerous times.
I really enjoyed the post. I am just getting started on Steemit, but I have noticed the same 400ish amount of votes.....Do you or anyone else have any advice for someone that is just starting out on Steemit?
First thing to do is create an avi for your account. Something that stands out. You are a brand all to yourself. You need to build that brand.
Thank you
Gaining followers is the best way to start and you can do that by talking with others like you've done here.
seems like a large portion of it is gravity like a black hole, the more votes you have the more you will get and in a lot of ways steemit is about snowballing your following and curation trails until every post you make is doing well, i think aside from that it's important to cover topics that appeal to a wide range of people, and to keep the quality high
Yeah! These are some great points btw! Thank you so much! :) It's necessary to maintain a very good quality on your posts here.
Consistency
Building relationships
Having something "valuable" to offer.
Absolutely correct! :)
As a relatively new user to Steemit I must also confess to being confused by some of the behavior of posts, voting and payout values.
I know about bots and have a general understanding about what they do. Maybe as time passes I'll understand them better and will be able to make an informed judgement about the ethics of using them.
For now, I've stopped looking at the trending and hot pages and am concentrating on simply generating (hopefully) quality content.
Simply stated, I'm not going to be resentful of other people who have been here longer than me and put in the hard work it takes to become successful.
It's counterproductive.
Steemit may not be perfect; others may find ways to "game" the system.
But overall, it offers in my humble opinion the most realistic opportunity to build something with your own hard work than anything else I've seen in my 50+ years on this planet.
Upvoted and resteemed.
@aggroed has just posted about Minnow School 101 course he's offering, for free.
Well said! And yes most people who trend also have put in a lot of effort. There's always some tradeoff and it's time for people you have worked hard in the past to ride the wave and new ones to follow suit.
That's right
By boys do you mean people set up boys to upvote? These bots have power?
They either power up these accounts or secretly delegate sp to brand new accounts and use scripts to follow certain authors at certain intervals. Basically get them to do anything they want to around here, especially upvoting. :)
That's not very fair.
Are the new account owners made aware?
No i meant, the bot owners can create new accounts for themselves.
In fact in the early days a few have created thousands of bots. The total signups on steemit has atleast 50K bot accounts and name squatting.
Oh wow, that is insane.
I value talent and hard work. It's sad many just value greed.
Yeah, a bunch of extra accounts is understandable, but Im taking thousands here. You can simply power them up and then down. Considering back then each a/c gave you 10 SP on signups unlike 0.5 now, powering them up to power them down means a LOT of SP multiplied by the number of a/cs you own! ;)
Then you can simply delegate SP to the same a/cs and have them follow you or author of your choice in a trail! :D
Good post - thank you. I'm pursuing a long term approach, and won't be unhappy if it takes a while to develop a group of followers as well as settling on a broader Steemit group. My current focus is on helping friends from the real world make the step into the Steemit world.
That's a great mindset and attitude. That's what one needs to get started. :)
Thanks, @Firepower :-)
This post got you over 400 votes!
Yeah! It did! :)
thanks for sharing. I like that Steemit's cash incentives inspire developers to create new apps and expand STEEM. I am a developer and am considering what to build. I already run a social network at www.ureka.org - so I might find a clever way to bring the two together.
I think a high number of followers is key to high votes, along with high quality posts.
Yeah! Good devs get voted on a lot by the community! Fantastic opportunity this!
ok, thanks for the tip - i am starting to move in that direction now: https://steemit.com/steemit/@ura-soul/increase-the-value-of-steem-exponentially-an-app-to-add-steemit-features-to-wordpress-and-other-social-platforms
I can only speak for myself, but I find it hard to go through all of the post that are shown on my "home page". I therefore quickly scroll through my home page, and based on the headline I pick a few. I try to upvote more post than I actually read because I have nothing to lose. Other than that I think the people who are gaining 300-1000 upvotes are people who are creating quality original content, and have been on Steemit for quite some time, and therefore have a large following and a solid reputation.
That's quite true actually!
This is actually an incredible post. If you allow it I would like to use it in one of my upcominh posts. Cheers and Steem on!
You could refer to it in your post and link to this article. :)
I did just that. Check my latest blog under header "Special Mentions"
Nice post..
thanks. What is your opinion on this subject?
Ya i think its very difficult for a new user to get noticed unless u have help from someone who has been on this platform for a while. There are a lot of things to learn for a beginner and in all these things getting these many upvotes is a difficult task.
@man-d
you will need to work hard in this platform.
I succeed in 11 months.
Ya one has to work hard at whatever he does to succeed.
Bt what I meant is for example in the comments section I commented nice post to which I was asked my opinion which I gave. But the there was no further interaction on others part. So I dont knw weather he has even read my comment or not. This is also one of the problem.
sometimes, they simply ignore.
other time they are busy.
Had a comment on dantheman one time, he simply ignore.
I did had a good conversation chat with @ned , you know @ned ?
@bullionstackers I'm glad to know that you are doing well after nearly a year on the platform. Wish you greater success here!
no @bullionstackers i am here since only 3 4 days i dont knw @ned.
Everyone is busy, no one can immediately respond to you even if they want. You need to have some patience and understand that people will reply to you if:
I do, and that's why im responding to you even before I get to others, some who are regular commentators on my blogs. Not everyone replies to comments but I do reply to everyone who posts.
Keep learning and growing here!
Cheers!
The comment was not pointed at u, I am sry if that message came through my comment. I jus noticed this thing generally. I am sure you reply to as many comments as u can and that is a very nice things but relating to the article you wrote I felt this is also a point to be considered.
@man-d Yes and no. It helps to have an influencer here invite you over and help you get acquainted but you can succeed otherwise as well. Takes time and effort and more than anything consistency!
Yes u are absolutely right after going through many profile of the steemwhales as they are known I have noticed consistency was the key that has made them what they are now.
Successful people are not just hard working or smart but they are consistent.
Amazing post friend, this post is so spot on, touched so many questions have been trying to unravel being a new user here. However, what's the best way of networking in your opinion?..DM on steemit.chat?
Thank you! Glad you found it useful! Steemit.Chat, Commenting and engaging with your target audience and especially users who's votes you would like to attract on a regular basis is what you could be doing.. DMs are good once you have built a rapport as the top users generally tend to be amongst the busiest.
Soooo... how do you get all the votes?
Gain A LOT of loyal followers!
It is really good post contains information about Steemit. I realized that if, your goal is money only, you cant build relationships with others and wont be successful. Thank you for making clear others what approches should be. Good stay.
Thats' right! thank you for your comment. :)
It is unrealistic to expect such high numbers when you're just starting out, but I do see many posts asking the same questions. I am new myself, and tend to simply browse and interact here and there. My expectations are small at this point, though I DO feel as though I am making relationships that may carry through when I do start writing. This was a very nice read and welcome back :)
That's a fantastic and level headed approach! Wish you the best! :)
Thank you! :)
There is really a lot to balance here. You need to balance the desire to make profit and the desire to be authentic, the optimism that can help you go far and he cynicism that sometimes here are some problems with the structure and culture, and then there's the balance between checking feed, new and hot/trending.
I need to go it and find new followers, otherwise I am writing for myself and the few people who trust that my posts are high quality after only here weeks. At the same time I don't want to neglect those people who are loyal readers and new friends who I feel a connection with.
It's quite a challenge but I feel I'm learning a lot about myself in the process.
I agree with your points! It's a fun challenge here though as its rewarding to spend time here! :D
From what I gathered, all it takes is hardwork, a little sunshine and a skeletal bone structure entirely made of an Adamantium metal alloy.
Oh and good original content. I know thats also important, too.
haha that's true!
We all need this!
Not a fan of bots.
If there was a tool that could list all the people using bots, I'd avoid up-voting their posts and never follow them, or unfollow them if I am already doing so.
I am not here to engage with bots BUT with real people.
Same thoughts here. Hence I vote manually and dont use bots even as I can make a lot more $ and save a ton of time. I love this place for it's engagement and networking possibilities.
follow me @lifeofpai and upvote if u like what i write
Wauw. You've been writing very consistently then. If all your posts are this long that's quite the dayjob ;) you make some interesting points. You can add one new follower to your list :)
Yeah that's true. Now im writing exclusively on steemit and spend most of my time here in the day.
Very interessting post! Thank you for that :)
Thank you for reading! :)
Nice post. I it comes down to hard work and persistence early on. You've got to be able to weather the variance. You may write 10 posts of identical quality, and one will be worth more than the other 9 combined, x10! A microcosm of this has occurred in my first week here, and I haven't even seen any of my posts complete yet.
Thanks. Even for me after months of hard work it's starting to pay off now on a regular basis.
I agree with the article you linked from @kyriacos, that it doesn't really matter how one makes money on steemit. It's similar to not being concerned what your neighbor makes for a living. It will not change your outcomes at all. Sure you can emulate the authors that make a consistently large payout, but without their followers, your results may differ.
It would be insightful to see what the manual vs auto-curation numbers are for the top paying accounts. It is human nature to not want to miss out on the best possible curation outcomes and therefore the employment of bots is necessary to make that a reality. Use all the tools that are available to you on this platform.
You have got your points spot on! I think auto-curation bots of a few people are performing surprisingly well. Manual curation is tasking but then it offers greater flexibility and better quality of authors whos content gets noticed.
This is true!
Thanks. I mix it up with the curation. Manual definitely offers flexibility. I get annoyed when my bots upvote too much and spend all my curation capital. lol
haha! I can understand that. I like spending my time doing that and generally dont mind the effort that goes with it.
I think that producing quality content and actively interacting with other steemians are the main drivers if you want success here. So many successful steemians have postet guides on how to make it big here. So I try to emulate some of the things they have done while keeping true to myself and post about my own interests a long the way :)
Yes that's a good approach to things. :) Thank you for reading.
Very interesting post with a lot of food for thought. Many of the comments below refer to producing content of value. Whilst I agree with that 100% I have also seen some posts with payouts of $1000 that didn't really seem to offer much valuable content...value is subjective of course, so sometimes things simply trend when one whale whimsically likes that particular content. So I do think things are a lot more random than they should be. Having said that, I love Steemit and the interesting things one discovers here everyday.
I do agree some of the posts on trending dont seem to justify the payouts they get but then the community seems to think otherwise and they have the votes and that's the end results. We just have to accept it. Im with you on this.
followed upvoted resteemed, great post and very knowledgeable, I am a noob at steemit and blogging in general and trying to get traffic to my post is well confusing to say the least, I have never been a good writer matter of fact my writing skills are below failing to be honest never pick that up very well in school, but I am here trying dont know if there is a way to have people goto my post and tell me what is wrong with them and give ideas to better the content to bring in the reader traffic to my post and then the votes, I dont know if that is something you do or if there is a person or bot on there that could give a helping hand to make better post, thanks for the article and look forward to more great post
Thank you so much for your response. I wasnt always good at writing but I enjoy writing from my heart and I feel that often helps me connect with my audience. :)
Really interesting, you are best of the best. I have much to learn from you
wow! thank you for the kind comment! Hope you find other works of mine interesting.
I wonder what kind of content do people on Steem like most..? I'd like to start producing series of blogs, but not sure if it worth trying and investing time in.
A lot of different types of content works. From the run off the mill crypto stuff to NSFW stuff and everything in between. The advantage is experiment and finding your niche and getting a steady set of votes to keep your work going from one day to another! :) Never harms to try. I write on a variety of topics but mostly from my personal experiences when Im not managing others things around here and that works for me.
Great and interesting post. Good information and may you have even more votes!
thank you very much! :)
Very informative post about steem voting... learnt a lot!
Thanks. I'm glad you like it. But what do you think about this?
Wow wow, this is very cool!, i guess most of my followers are newbies, therefore they are still active... or is the fact that i am newbie?... however i rarely get more than 20 upvotes average (not complaining), but would be interesting to know how many followers should i get to increase my average upvotes?
The more the merrier. It's hard to say exactly how many followers you'll need to earn a decent income here. But i think you are on the right path!
Thank you for your post. It's very honest and real and helpful to us new steemers. I do follow you because I like what you bring to the table. Have a wonderful day
Thank you so much! :)
It was really a descriptive article. But for a new recorders, it's hard to rise. Can you give me advice for this?
make friends across all account sizes by trying to engage with them, ask questions when you need answers etc. Regular engagement will allow them to familiarise with your work. Also quality trumps quantity.
Okey, I will do that. Thank's for help :)
I got lucky. I made a comic and it got like 600 upvotes, normally I get maybe 10.
You Have to Post About Stuff I Don't Care About
Seems to sum it up in a nutshell. Call me old fashioned, call me out of touch, but I've spent significant time with self-development and love myself and my family. 90% of what makes money with posts on Steemit don't mean anything to me and I'm unable to bring myself to care.
I post valuable information nobody, wrapped up in non-essential b.s., is interested in. Therefore, I get very few votes. shrug I'm good with it. :)
That's absolutely fine :D
Well to each his own I suppose. That's also something that works for some on this platform.
Congratulations @firepower!
Your post was mentioned in my hit parade in the following category:
Thank you! :)
I have been working so hard to just build a following but it is so hard
Leave useful comments, politely ask people to take a look at your blogs and with great consistency you'll get there.
Good write up mate @firepower. Helpful for a newbie like me . Started following you for latest posts .
Nice one. Please help upvote my introduction post am new here
https://steemit.com/introduction/@gabesty/my-introductory-post
Thank you