We all want to be successful on Steemit and post good content, but do you have a strategy to make sure that happens? In this blog I will walk you thought the five steps of creating your own content strategy and how to make it successful.
Step 1. What Are You Going To Write About?
First you have to decide what you are going to write about. If you are brand new, you should spend a couple of weeks trying out different content on different subjects and see what resonates best with the Steemit community. Try and figure out at least two different topics that you feel comfortable with and that has resonated with other Steemonians.
Step 2. How Often Can You Write?
Now that you know what you want to write, let's figure out how often you can do it. Posting once a day is the bare minimum. I think if you really want to grow on Steemit, two or three blogs a day are not out of the question. In my personal content strategy, I try to post four a day, but that is just me.
Step 3. When To Post Your Blogs?
Now you know what to write and how often you want to do it, no we figure out the time that you want to post. You want to try and be consistent. For example, I try to post a poem each day around midnight. I post helpful Steemit articles like this during the day and then in the evening I post something different. Find the times that work for you in your schedule and then try to post during those times each day.
Step 4. Don't Forget The Tags
One of the most important things you can do to make sure your posts are seen is by using the correct tags. If you are writing content that all uses the same tags, you are going to really want to space out your blogs so they don't compete with each other for views. If you write on varied topics, make sure you don't repeat tags. For example the tags on this post will be completely different from the ones on my poetry posts. By doing this I am reaching new people across 10 different tags and have the ability to be "hot" or "trending" in multiple tags. It also means that I can post two different pieces within an hour of each other and they won't compete with each other for views. They are reaching two completely different audiences.
Step 5. Do You Have Time To Reply
When making your posting strategy you want to make sure you leave yourself enough time to respond and engage with people that reply to your blog. You don't want to just write something and post it, then go to work for the day. It happens sometimes, but you want to try to avoid it. Give yourself some time, maybe 30 minutes to be available to reply to people when they post on your blog. I try to do this, and it helps increase the engagement. I can't always do it, but I try to factor in that time whenever I'm creating my posting strategy.
FINAL ADVICE - Stick to your posting schedule for at least a month and then go back and see if you are seeing vote and comment growth, and pick the top performers and see what you did differently with those. Then replicate it and modify your schedule for the next month. Keep testing new things while providing consistent content and you will be able to really define your own success here on Steemit.
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I hope this helps. If it did, please feel free to share and to comment below with any feedback. Thank you.
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This is very helpful. I will resteem it in a couple more days so it hits the feed around my regular posting time. Thanks for the info!
You are more than welcome. Thanks for resteeming. You rock. I appreciate it.
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For me, the most difficult one to master so far has been timing. Once you know the optimum time to post, you can reach a lot more people. Posting different times of the day is also a great strategy if you can post more than once a day.
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really useful walkingkeys.Upvoted
Thank you very much. I'm glad I could help.
I appreciate the advice. For those drawing and making art, do think the art related tags are more important or the subject matter of the art is more important?
Great question. The art tags are more important... Writing, Art, Photography, Poetry...
Make sure you put the relevant ones and then add the subject matter.
There may be some cases where you create something that directly ties to another main topic. For example I wrote a "Love Poem To Steemit" and I put Steemit as the top topic, but still had poetry and writing.
I would stick with the broadest terms first and your last one should be the most narrow.
I hope that helps. I might do a blog just on tags. Thanks for the idea.
I'll have to try out the schedule. Thanks
P.S I haven't forgotten about you keys. :)
Try it out and let me know how it works.
Thanks man, take your time.
Very helpful :) thanks for the article
Great tips, thank you! I'm still working on becoming more consistent with my content, as well as making the smart decisions on how to present it, how to tag it, etc. I'm actually quite excited that the price of STEEM is going down at the moment (even though I'm quite in the red for the SP I invested in lol) because this is a great opportunity to build the community with people being a bit less focused on "quick cash."
Awesome post. I will be trying these steps out in the next couple of days.
Very helpfull recommendations,thanks a lot
Very very useful my friend thank you!
I think I'll have to keep this in mind! Posting once a day is so hard for me because I tend to write such long form posts, but I think if I drop in more photography and art, I could probably manage it.
Some great points, many of which I need to seriously work on. I haven't tried setting a schedule for posting and replying. That could be a game changer for me. Thanks for the tips!
Thanks for sharing.... great post... I will give this a shot and see what happens... thanks again!
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SteemIt blogging is a business and as such people should approach it with a business strategy in mind. Great post!
Or, do 4 a day so you can get that Award on Steemit - Board of Honor!