Analysis of Steemit Tags (and fun competition) – Steemit Business Intelligence
Using tags on your Steemit posts is crucial in making sure that your post is found and read by others. But how popular is each tag and what does the data tell us about how tags are used.
https://steemit.com/tags will quickly give you the trending topics which you can sort by Number of posts, comments or pay outs. This is a really hand tool that everyone on Steemit should know about.
As this data is readily available to everyone, I have decided to look at the tags in a little more detail. To do this I have connected to the SteemSQL server held by @arcange
I have connected to the Comments Table, and I have extracted the Json that includes all of the tags for each post. The data set I have taken is for the 1st Aug to the 14th Aug 17. I have also only taken the Posts, which means that Comments are NOT included. In total 332K posts were analysed.
Almost 42% of posts only have one tag. From a search point of view, these posts will only appear in one category. It may be a case that these posts only relate to one category and the author is honest and does not want to spam other categories. It might also be a case that some of these authors don’t know you can use up to 5 tags in a post.
37% of posts include the max number of 5 tags, making these posts highly searchable.
Next I look to see what tags are combined together on a regular basis.
Below is the top 10 tags used with the category Life
I also looked at the category funny
And the Category Steemit
Fun Competition
Let’s have a bit of fun. Below are two word clouds each based on a different Categories and the tags used with them. Guess both of the Categories in the comments below, get both correct and I will up vote your comment with a whopping 6 cent vote lol.
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My guess is also photography and cryptocurrency:)
My guess is photography and cryptocurrency
In my heart I'm a winner too ;)
wow amazing post
thanks for share
Hi @paulag
Only 4 tags today? :)
As far as the word cloud, isn't the biggest word the in the cloud the category - 'nature' and 'bitcoin'? 'picture' and 'steem' - backup guesses!
These are not the main category. I have excluded the main category in the word cloud. Try again because you are close
dammit, one out of two?
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I'm not sure, but I'll throw out Steemit and Life. ❤ Great article I'll be mindful of.
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STOPthat's too much thinking for 6% (-: ... but seriously, i'm surprised 42% only list one category, but really it doesn't matter too much many times. I always list 5, but it's more just to challenge myself to assess 5 themes/ideas from my post. I don't use abused tags like "blog" and "life" anymore, I'll just make up a tag instead, like "farmersmarket" for my last post.