RE: Deceptively Optimistic Self-Shilling Posts Hurt Steemit
I'm new here; I am a content creator, and I have many other similar friends I can invite here. I am not inviting anyone yet. Most of us know nothing about crypto, reddit, medium, bots, or any other thing like that. 95% of my friends would never make this huge effort and would hate me for asking them to try.
We blog, or write books, or take photos, or film videos to make a point, sell a product, or try to reach and help people. I have a few niches but those are the common traits of my connections. The huge learning curve is too big of a hurdle for anyone already doing ok in their work so I'm laying low at the moment as far as callouts to join steemit.
I came here for the alexa ranking. Now I'm not sure if it is fake. After a month I have a lot of misgivings about a lot of aspects of this site, though I am still here trying to make it work.
I kind of like some of the "WooHoo! I did this accomplishment" posts because they give me guidelines, goals, and information about what milestones to shoot for. This place is so confusing and I am grateful any insight I receive.
It interests me to read that you have gotten some heavy hitters here who then leave the platform. I can see why and each morning I wonder if I should not get back to any number of projects on hold for this effort. I came in with a little flood of ex-tsusers and most of them have gone silent although some are doing well or still learning like me.
I am still a minnow swimming and probably will continue for another month. So far I am only posting into challenges for the most part as a learning technique, and I have not posted or linked to much of my main content.
I'll be doing some of that in the next month as well as posting my steemit posts out to social media in cycles. In this first month, I have come to realize that my goal should be to get google search traffic and not worry too much about what happens with the 200K+ steemers (How many are active?)
I'm going to see if I can drive traffic to my work. I am ok with seo; and now I "sort of" know how to make steemit posts that look good. I have not had such an opportunity before with a great alexa ranking like this and no censorship, so I feel hopeful.
At least my steemit posts go out to social media with great visuals and clickable links. Many other platforms cannot even manage that and so tweeting a post is a waste of time.
I really appreciate your insight, and I learned a lot from reading your post. Thank you.
My advice is to keep writing good posts and try to contributed into solving these problems by getting together with like minded people. Steemit right now is a risky investment when it comes to someone's time. If you have been on facebook and instead you spend the same time here then it is fine. If not, I would advice you to tone it down until the platform solves some fundamental issues. Steemit is not a job substitute.
Thank you for that interesting advice and I will definitely keep it in mind as I am here. I do use fb for traffic a lot and have stopped about 80% of that work for now.
Which of the fundamental issues do you think are most critical for me to pay attention to or that need to be solved to make this a good place to be?
Focus on comments. They create a good following which will get you attention in your posts. If I was starting just now I would make a post twice a week and spend 2 hours everyday on commenting.
That makes me happy to hear. The majority of my time is on commenting and I will definitely continue. It's the only way I learn or connect with new people or the people I already know who are here.
The posts can be very eye opening even if they take a lot of effort to comprehend. My posts definitely sink like a stone - but you can find them on google which makes me happy. I got traffic to you tube as well. These results are what keeps me going here.
@fitinfun, I'm trying to do the same thing you are, but much more tersely.
lol - It's hard to beat me on verbose. I never talk in person though :)
I'm at the bottom of the thread!!! Woo hoo. It's cozy down here :)
Just 2 hours? And how many realy meaning coments can be done? I dont think more then 5-10 , as far you should read the post and think it over.
That's exactly what I've been doing tbh, allocated probably 20% of my fb time to this place, nothing to lose...nd 100% agree that spending huge amounts of time is as risky an investment as buyint thousands of steem!
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I feel very similarly to you - I am a professional writer and know a LOT of people in the writing community - especially horror and science fiction. A lot of them are professional editors, teachers, and freelance writers who would love to make some extra cash. But most of them are not that tech-savvy and trying to plunge into steemit without any prior knowledge of crypto would frankly, be a confusing mess of a nightmare.
I'm lucky in that I've done research on cryptocurrency in the past year and already knew how it worked. But things like wallets, block-chains, encryption, exchanges, and the differences between currencies takes time to figure out and isn't immediately obvious. I can't in good conscience recommend the platform to friends because of it.
I think that's why we get the glut of crypto-related posts and there seems to be a lack of quality, professional writers. For the amount of money you get, it's just too much of a hassle for most people to do the research.
I've done the "shilling" posts, but they don't really bother me unless that's all I see in a person's feed. I admit they provide little value to anyone who isn't already a fan of the author.
My Mother USB a professional writer am deathly I have been trying to get her on here, but I worry that her post s will fall flat and she'all be out. I told her to get on here for a little while, poke around, comment, see what she likes, before putting be a LOT of time into creating content that might not get many views...