Secrets of tags in Steemit! How to use it properly. Yes! You better do it to be more popular and gain money!
In past few days I was thinking about tags. And you need just think little bit to understand how better to use them!
I think good tags is about 30% of success!
So you just go on page https://steemit.com/tags.html/trending and at this moment find the most popular. For example more than 10000 SBD:
And sorted:
Popular themes
You can see the most popular themes. Better you write articles using this themes.
Unite tags
For example, if you write introduce post you can use tags: introduceyourself, introduction, life, writing. If you introduction post about travel - add travel tag. And so on.
For example, if you post fun video you can use tags: video, funny, life.
Of course you can add more tags not so popular. But first use popular.
What others Steemers using
Look and investigate all post for what tags they use. Now it not possible to do it at steemit site. But you can see it here: http://steempress.io/. Just insert there interesting name and you can see what tags using author.
Also you should do it with no cheating. I mean add only appropriate tags.
An idea to do a new tag
If you want to do new tag just only about you - you can do it. Just write new tag in article (using some word and #) and it will be easier in future for people to see all you posts. Somebody just click on this tag and will see all about you. It can be really great opportunity to earn in future more and have new subscribers!
Like example somebody used to open photo challenge using tag #steemitphotochallenge
So more better you add tags - more #steempower you will receive!
Good Luck!
Update in 2 hours:
So when I added like example tag #steemitphotochallenge everybody can see this article at top of competition (and tag #steemitphotochallenge added forcibly in my lists of tags):
So now it looks like sort of cheating. But I ask owner of photo competition (link to my question) if it is ok for him (her?). And actually I think it is ok - because it is mutual advertisment for both. Especially this post now is popular. Anyway it quite delicate subject. But you can imagine what kind of border it open! It is possible do mutual advertisement of each other!!!
Added in 4 hours:
One more secret about tags
I found one more property of tags. I every day looked at this list:
And just now I realised that this is top of tags at this moment. Now the top best article is about piton.web and you can see piton at top 5 of tags. I dont know maybe many people know that this is online top, but I just see it now!
How to use this information?
You can use appropriate information with this tag in a hot theme. If main theme earning thousands of dollars than you have chance also to have some earnings.
it shows this errror while posting post
You have 11 tags total. Please use only 5 in your post and category line.
@hiamshuawasthi23 you were right. After reading this article, his tags captured my attention most. He got eight tags here. Is this possible? I thought you can only use five tags? Or I just haven't tried having eight tags?
But having you said you encountered an error by doing so, I'll probably end up with the same error. Still, how was this possible?
This post is dated last year! It is not possible in current day. Use five tags related to your post!
Oh, that explains it. What's with "!". Nevermind. 😶
I write in #cartoon if you guys want to check it out. Would be nice :)
Another fun cartoon author if people are interested:
https://steemit.com/funny/@artist1989/comic-strip-terence-the-spider-introducing-terence-the-spider
Is this still valid? http://steempress.io/ Doesn't seem to work nowadays. So we cannot really see what other authors use, right?
Good article - appropriate/related tags are very helpful and insightful from the trending perspective
How do you feel about the amount of tag-spamming?
What do you mean? I'm not talking about tag spamming at all.
I'm asking how you feel about those that abuse tags and spam.
There is always downvoting for them...
And develops of steemit is quite timely so if we have mass problem with spam I think thay will add some new function to site to strictly punish spamers.
It's certainly true - choosing the most popular tags helps you reach out to a wider audience. On the other hand, you can create a tag and add content to it where it doesn't exist. New topics can also attract users to upvote.
I'll be
Nice helping post, I will learn from this and see if gets better
Thank you for the great post. I'll definitely put some more effort into my tags in future
Very helpful and useful. Respect the post!
Excellent post! Do you think the #steemit and such in the final part of the post really makes a difference? I've only seen a few people using it, and their posts are usually well performing.
Oh I really dont know about it! Just add it also in my post. Lets see! :)
Sorry to say its not about the tags , but the content and luck you need . if you lucky enough u get upvote by whales you have bright future ahead of ur post . well this what i thought , no harm mate .