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So today I decided to talk about the tabs you see on top of steemit home page : HOME, NEW, HOT, TRENDING and PROMOTED. all the tabs aren't immediately obvious to newcomers and what they mean. Well, at least HOT and TRENDING is sure to confuse you a bit at first. if it doesn't, you're a Legend!! Take a bow!!
Let's get the easier tabs out of the way first!!
Home is basically the same as you facebook homepage. The posts from people you have followed will show up here. Your posts will show up on the home tab of people who have followed you.
New is exactly what it sounds like. NEW posts!! All new posts that are coming through from the people you've followed will show up here. Similarly, if you navigated to one of the tags, say for example you clicked on the tag memechallenge, and went to the new page, all new posts which has the tag memechallenge in it will be showing up here, the newest one being on the top of the page.
Promoted tab shows posts for which authors have paid money to steemit in SBD and Steemit is promoting their post to it's users!! Simple!!
Hot and Trending are the two tabs that confuses people the most. I haven't found any explanation whatsoever that explains exactly how steemit decides which posts are in trending and which are in hot and I have heard from lot of people who have been around on steemit for a long enough time that even they don't know how this algorithm works.
I'll try to explain from what I figured out. Don't take my word for it as it might not be 100% accurate. This is just how I understand what the differences between these two tabs might be.
Trending tabs shows you the posts which have been doing well for the past few days in certain category. For example, in memechallenge, the trending tab will show the posts with the tag memechallenge which have done well (i.e. got a lot of upvotes, comments and made tons of money) over the last 3-4 days. In the photography category, the trending tab will show posts with photography tag which have done well for the last few days. And so on...
Hot as I understand, are posts that have had good interactions (i.e. upvotes and comments) and earned decent amount of money (the amount might vary between SBD 1 to SBD 50 or more depending on the category the post is in) in relation to time. What I mean by in relation to time is, the quicker your post makes money and gets interaction, the hotter it is and the higher chance you will have to be higher on the *Hot tab. So say for example a post made SBD 3 and had 30 upvotes 5 hours after posting, and a second post which maybe made SBD 2 and had 20 upvotes but all this within 30 minutes of posting, the second post will be higher up than the first post in the hot category beacuse it had higher interaction than the first post in relation to time.
As I understand the list of posts in the hot category are refreshed every 3-4 hours or might even be less or more (no one knows how often) and the list gets updated and newer, hotter posts come up. So unless your post is getting constant interaction and making money constantly, it is very likely your post will move down on the hot list to make way for newer hot posts which are receiving high interaction in relation to time after being posted.
As new comers, it's too big of a dream to be on the trending tab. But getting on the hot tab isn't a dream if you are a little strategic!! I myself have made quite a few of my post appear in the hot tab for a few hours. In fact since I've figured out my strategy, most of my posts (not all) have stayed among the first 5-6 posts on the Hot tab for about 3-4-5 hours!!
This is a big bonus as a new comer as we don't have a lot of followers when we're starting out and the Hot page gives us an opportunity for our posts to be seen by a larger audience, maybe even some of the big guys on steemit, because most people surfing in a certain category checks out the trending and hot posts and thus if you're on top of the hot page there is a high likelihood that you post will be seen by most people surfing the category your post is in.
If this post does similarly well as the previous one, I will make a post titled "Getting your posts HOT made ridiculously simple for newbies and beginners" where I will be discussing My strategy to get on that Hot page!!
I will be trying to use my strategy to get this post on the Hot tab in steemit category. If I succeed I will post a screenshot of that right here :
I'm not being able to add a picture on edit for some reason. But I did make it on to the hot page. But I couldn't reach the top of the page because the competition was way too high!! (the top post made $250 in 30 mins!! No way i'm beating that!!) My post ranked 12 on the hot page for now!!
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I kept on mixing New with my Feed tab.
That is the only confusion that I have with a front page tabs.
Your tutorials are extremely good.
Glad you found this useful!!
Would you please resteem this post so more people out there might be helped and I will be helped as well as more people se my posts!!
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Thank you. This is the best explanation I've seen on the 'hot' vs 'trending' question :-)
Nice info @simplifylife , i am following, upvote coment and resteem your post
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Thank you very much mate!! Really appreciate your support!! I'm glad you found this post helpful!!
Would you please kindly nominate one of the posts i have written (Which you think might be good enough to win) in this contest? By nominating you enter the contest as well and have the chance to be selected to win!! Just visit the post below and comment the link of my post!!
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nice brother
Thank you very much!!
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Thanks so much for the shoutout!! Really appreciate the support!!
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Any time!!! thanks again for the initial support :-)
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Done, im new here so i nominated the same post as yours. I guess it is, right?
Now im reading about having a wallet for bitshare, do you have one?
Yes I do. i will explain about this in a future post. But just open one anyway at https://bitshares.openledger.info under the account model
Haha no. Actually what I meant was, nominate one of the posts I have written, whichever you think will have a chance to win!! :)
very good explanation indeed, i hade more confusion about the' tabs' from my starting on steemit. but today i got cleared about that without confuse thank @simplifylife,keep it up!
Glad you found it helpful!! Cheers mate!!
welcome! thanks repley
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@simplifylife - I am definitely digging this newbie STEEMIT (help guide, explanation, etc) post. Like the first one I commented on - This one as well is very - easy to read and understand" there are a to of help-guides out there newbies.. Trust me there are.., However many are outdated and since they grossed like $600-800 back in the really flourishing days fior everyone - much of the info has changed, been updated, algorithms tweaked, and even payout structures, timelines changed drastically..
If you are new to STEEMIT I advise you to follow @simplifylife for his help-guides and also look for help topics in the new/trending tab instead of searching the search box that ranks posts moreso by payout than "newness" and exactly what you need help with - this is because all of STEEMIT posts are automatically submitted to Google for search results - which is not the case at all for Facebook or other Social Media sites.. It's good for your post - but bad for looking up new content on STEEMIT help issues.
Thank you very much for the kind words!! I will keep trying to keep these posts coming as I learn something new everyday!! The more I can make from these posts, the better the posts will become I hope!!
In the meantime would you please resteem this post so that more people can benefit from my efforts!! And also, If you haven't aleady, do make sure to check out the next post :
https://steemit.com/steemit/@simplifylife/getting-on-the-hot-list-made-ridiculously-simple-for-newbies-and-beginners
Cheers!!