How many times has this happened to you?
I have written several posts since I have joined here, but only a few have made any money.
When I first joined here, I figured I would just throw some stuff together and make some money. Wrong!
When you learn from your mistakes, they become lessons!
The feeling of writing something and having people actually read it and like it, is such an awesome feeling.
Writing a blog post just to get it out there and writing to reach a reader are absolutely different.
I have written about stuff that I didn't really care about before but it wasn't until I wrote a post "How Working With Cancer Survivors Changed My Life", that I realized what I am missing.
You see, I know I am not a creative writer, or a good one, but when you can write something that connects with people, it reaches them.
So I may not make a lot of money with my posts, but knowing some people may actually like something that I write is pretty dam good also.
I am still learning about this community. I am learning that connecting and interacting with people here is makes my time here much more fun. Include the fact that you can make some money and this really is a great place to be,
Have a great day everyone!
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I think the best way to look at it is that the worst case scenario is that we won't make anything. This is why we shouldn't blog for money because it can get frustrating unless you have a really big following in which case you would already be in the money and you probably won't wanna beg your followers to come here and buy STEEM and upvote you instead of simply buying your books! :]]]
It is a bit frustrating but much better than the money I have made posting on FB - nothing. A few years ago I had a blog where I tried article marketing. Paid $12/month. Also I have photos on a few stock sites. I have made $6.00 on one. Seems like the strategy here is to get the post to get attention so that it gets upvoted and commented. Then old posts trail off into oblivion. So only fresh posting has any value.
It would be nice to have even the older posts still able to make money. I have a website and trying to satisfy google to get high rankings is really difficult. Here you do not have to worry about keyword research or SEO.
Yep! Just post what you think interesting. Hopefully you will hit an audience. I have posted a few of my articles that I later incorporated on Kindle books. That was something else that started out promising but faded out. I used to get about $20/mo from Amazon - now I may get that for the whole year. They say 30 thousand + books get submitted into Kindle everyday. Hard to get the comments and ratings that will propel your book in the rankings where you will make real money.
Yeah that is tough to crack because of the competition. I have been working on my website since 2011. I self-taught myself everything and I have a small following but unless you are on page one of google it is tough to get anywhere.
I had the same issue with my blog. Never went anywhere. I even tried Squidoo but that only resulted in spam complaints when I posted affiliate links. Just trying different things to find something that works. The great thing about Steemit is we all benefit mutually when a post goes "viral". My best payouts have been from posting comments.
My best post made $95. It took me all year to make that with adsense. lol I am finding I am getting my best website traffic with social networks. I just started making a few youtube videos for posts but again, hard to get views for a post unless it is really controversial or funny.
Highimpactflix has a video on youtube showing the video of the highest paid youtubers. They are a bunch of shallow braggers rapping about how much money they make and the houses cars they own. Millions of views. People posting real content or especially anything politically incorrect get blocked or even deleted by youtube. Alot of those youtubers are now on steemit. I found about about Steemit from a youtube video. I can find meaningful info and real interaction while getting rewarded for it.
sorry my vote actually gives more than 0.01 now my tributes for fondling are worth more now!! take my money
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Steem states in their "quick start guide"
"Earning on Steemit
The best attitude to have is to expect to make nothing. Have fun. Get engaged. Make friends. If along the way you earn something - bonus!
It is possible to earn thousands of dollars, but most authors who are doing this have put in a lot of time and work to contribute to the community and build followings."
When I first joined and I seen some posts making money that really didn't have much value, I figured just throw anything out there. No value in that, especially in the long run. Thanks for the comment.
Yeah I've already noticed that too. Seems interesting how that works.