You aren't following and resteeming enough people! (SteemIt exposure guide)
Hey you, yes you, did you know there's something that rewards content creators way more than your upvotes? "Oh you mean directly donating to people, right?" No, there are 2 ways which are actually orders of magnitude more rewarding than that: following and resteeming! Let's dive into why:
How curators can find your content:
1. [New]
Potential exposure:
Very low.
Details:
- Not many people scan more than the first few pages, so probably 99% of the content isn't discovered here.
- Your post is only exposed for a very short period of time.
2. [Hot]
Potential exposure:
High.
Details:
- Not many people scan more than the first few pages, so probably 99% of the content isn't discovered here.
- Less people view posts in "hot" than in "trending".
- To actually get decent exposure here you need to already be relatively popular or be extremely lucky.
3. [Trending]
Potential exposure:
Very high.
Details:
- Not many people scan more than the first few pages, so probably 99% of the content isn't discovered here.
- Only already extremely well earning content is shown here.
4. [Promoted]
Potential exposure:
High.
Details:
- This time you can actually influence the amount of exposure directly. The more you pay, the higher the exposure!
5. [Tags]
Potential exposure:
Low.
Details:
- Not many people scan more than the first few pages, so probably 99% of the content isn't discovered here.
- A lot less people browse in actual tags.
6. [Feed]
Potential exposure:
High.
Details:
- Potential exposure to 1000's and 1000's of users "for free"!
- Consistently more exposure compared to being on the trending page once in a while
- If your followers resteem something, your exposure increases exponentially!
- It does take months and months to build up followers though (and a little bit of luck).
- Having a lot of followers is the absolute best way to be a successful author on SteemIt and if you work hard you can eventually even make a living out of it!
Conclusion:
Next time you find content worth upvoting, make it your absolute highest priority to check out the blog history of the author (if you aren't following the author yet). If the blog history is interesting to you, give them the well deserved follow! Browsing their blog history gives you potential entertainment and/or education you otherwise never would have experienced just upvoting posts. The content that is out there is much, much more interesting than the curation rewards, which are almost nil anyway. You both benefit more from a follow than an upvote.
Don't forget to follow, resteem and browse my channel for more information!
An excellent post and great advice. I'll definitely resteem. We need to find more ways that authors can gain exposure. Maybe with Facebook style groups in which you can resteem content.
Thanks. Well there already are tags and follower feeds so i'm not sure what that will add. But indeed it could be interesting to add more ways to gain exposure. It will become especially interesting if you get rewarded for promoting people before they get big or something. I might write an article about this idea :)
For sure. I thought resteeming already generated curation rewards. Is that not the case?
Hmm i don't know. But you bring up a good point about the rewards for resteeming. Maybe you should earn rewards based on your followers. They could make the algorithm as hard as you want to include the activity of your followers, the average reputation, their average and/or combined STEEM POWER and such.
Just checked this post (https://steemit.com/steem-help/@stealthtrader/what-is-resteem-and-how-does-it-work) suggesting that resteeming doesn't give curation rewards directly but if you previously upvoted the post then it may help increase the total post and thus curation reward. Your idea for a resteeming curation reward algorithm sounds on point - I would vote for that.
So resteeming gives you no direct reward. That's should be fixed probably :)
I'll second that! Informative post @calamus056!👌
Thank you.
100 % agree. that's why I try to follow anyone who I upvote, in case I miss great content. Follow for follow at least please everyone. Currently following 8193 and followers count is 562 that's a good start I think.
Very informative post. Thank you for posting this. It's going to be very helpful for me, as a noob. Steemit has a great thing going. I really like the supportive community. Thank you again.
Very great stuff here and I think it will be useful for others new to the tactics to get more exposure.
I plan to RESTEEM this in hopes it helps others, we created a Facebook page to drag in new Steemit users off of Facebook and I will try to get them to shoot you a few follows and upvotes for your efforts on this one. You can view your post here if you wish:
https://www.facebook.com/steemitbc
Keep up the awesome work, decided to follow you and see what you come up with next
I'm not sure about your title LOL, @calamus056!
You have just got my follow.
If you're not sure, then maybe read the article and then you understand what i mean? :)
I read the post. I was joking
Ah k, thanks for the follow (and vote? haha).
Ok, so maybe going through some of your old content now...
Wow, thanks for this article too. So many things to learn on here... Then again, all you saying makes total sense :)
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Unvoted and resteemed. I wonder if we can get this post to the feed!
I hope you mean upvoted haha.
Oh! Whoops, yes of course! Lol
Interesting post! I'm new here and finding it very helpful :) Cheers
Followed. ^_^