When your posts keep earning less than $0.03
Are you one of those authors that continuously earns less than $0.03 a post? Well fear not, you are not alone.
You are not alone
Yesterday I was looking at Junes Post payout data and I found 342K posts with payouts of less than $0.03. I also found 13,635 accounts that posted regularly over the month and the average payout was less than $0.03.
Have you ever thought about not posting or posting less and curating and engaging instead?
Many people think they need to keep posting to be active on steemit. To be seen. But posting is only one aspect of the block. Reading, commenting, resteeming, upvoting, replying to replies are all other elements.
There are many authors that when you engage with them on their posts, will reward your comments with a $0.03 or more upvote. If your post payouts are normally around this mark then would it not make more sense to spend your time engaging with those that are upvoting comments? Is creating the post actually worth it when you could earn the same with a valuable comment?
There are some upcoming changes on the way, and these include changes to payouts on dust votes. From what I can gather, accumulation of dust votes to reach a value of $0.02 will no longer be possible. This might give you another reason to stop posting and start engaging instead.
Did you ever think you could improve your chances by posting less?
Well you can.
By spending more time reading and commenting and engaging, you are forming relationships, you are getting your name out there, you are marketing your steemit account. You are improving your chances.
Is it time to rethink your strategy?
Is it time for you to stop posting and start engaging?
@flyingdutchman has created a list of those that upvote comments greater than dust level. You can check it out here
Both posting and commenting are necessary to getting noticed here. Some of those people you commented on their blogs may visit your blog to see what you blog about. Some may even want to support your post, but when they get to your blog and not find any recent post, you may not get such support. Though it's very discouraging for someone to create a meaningful post and not get anything. You can't even tell if anyone even showed interest in the post. This is one of the reasons why the view counter should be brought back. Even if your post don't get payout, you can be able to tell if people showed interest in it by noting the number of views it generates. Most writers won't care too much about post's payout if they can be able to see their post's view count.
"Some of those people you commented on their blogs may visit your blog to see what you blog about"
I do this, when someone leave a comment I often pop over and take a look at their blog. Maybe me saying Stop posting should be changed to reduce your posting :-)
You're right. Someone that hasn't gain ground here can reduce posting and concentrate more on commenting. Most times i get more from commenting than from posting : even though i try to make my posts as informative as possible, they still don't earn much.
if commenting pays and is in the long term interest of growing the platform and their accounts, I do think its worth considering, but some people are here to post and we have to respect that too
Hey do you have data for those that also have not been commenting on others, of those 13k or so accounts?
(Oops it posted too early, wasn't sure if I wanted to leave it at that... How am I accidentally posting these things? Weird....)
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I could add a filter to the data and see, is it just a number you are looking for?
No just curious to see how many of that group is comment interacting is all. Oh so I guess yes, a number.
I will take a look later for you ;-)
It is not me but your idea is really great. That's why I am posting only one post per day . In stead of posting I am doing like curating, commenting, replying and resteeming. This make my account stronger. I have learned a lot of things from you.
ah thank you. I do hope what I share adds value to some. It was a though worth sharing, so I shared it. if people with low payout posts are looking at time value for money, then I would recommend heading over to the posts of those that do upvote comments and spend the time there.
Yup. This is so true.. Engaging really helps. Not only with the reward that you can get when they upvote your post but you can also have a new friend but simply dropping comments :)
you are right, great connections are made by simply dropping comments
this is an excellent advice ... when I started in steemit, I despaired because each publication had very little ... and I started reading strategy publications and the one that helped me the most was the comments ... I was better commenting that publishing, so much so that sometimes I only commented during the week and I did not even publish ... now, I'm posting and commenting, it's really good to interact, there comes a time when you feel you have friends in steemit ... :) certain people who are my favorites and I feel them as my friends although I do not know them in real life ... but the fact of commenting is pleasant.
steem is all about community and engagement. Get that right and the rest will follow. thanks for the comment @blessed-girl
Hello @paulag! I have just opened you as a great author and steemit hard-worker after reading @steemitweekly as you were mentioned there. I've read couple of your recent posts and I like them, I read the comments here and I agree on most of your views and positions. So I wanted just to say that I decided to follow you to stay in touch with you. Hope you won't mind it)
delighted for you to stay in touch, thank you for the follow. I must say, althoug I have my ideas on what I would like steem to be and how it should be used, the beauty of the blockchain is that we can all have different ideas and we can all be right at the same time.
I suppose for me the platform just feels so huge that it's hard to kind of "find people" if you like. I haven't really made any acquaintances here yet. I did once trade a lot of comments with one fairly experimented user Dana Edwards but that's about it.
From my perspective the constant focus in posts on money and rewards and the lack of centres of congregation (for want of s better term) are the issues I see.
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are you engaging with any communities @fourth?
With three, the SBI, makers and eco communities. That's pretty good but most of the real community stuff seems to happen on Discord.
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a lot of networking goes on within discord. It kinda saddens me because it takes so much time away from steemit. I hope the upcoming hivemind feature will be able to reduce the need for discord
I'm not really that into it and it's weird to have to go to a separate service to network. Is Hivemind a chat system?
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Not a chat system but a communities feature
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Nowadays I´m doing 0.05 normally, but it still almost nothing. So I can relate pretty well with this situation, and I´m one example, specially last 2 months. I have been commenting more, replacing the time of writing a post with some more valuable comments and potentially getting upvoted and even attracting some followers.
I spend the majority of my time on Steemit commenting. My commenting outnumbers my posting by 20:1, at the very minimum. I probably most even more than that. I find that many posts lead to wonderful conversations. I only wish we could design a good interface for longer comment threads. I don't have a good answer, but the current nested view gets hard to read after five or six messages, which discourages me to continue the "chat". And while long "chat"like post threads do not earn steem (people don't upvote comments as much, even when they respond to one), they can lead to wonderful learning opportunities!
awesome. I like you style, 20:1 really rock. I never looked at my ratio. Maybe this is another pie @abh12345 could do on his weeklys because it would be interesting to see how this changes across groups.
Any idea your earning ratio for comments/posts
Thanks for sharing, this is inspirational.
I have no idea what my earnings ratio is. To be honest, I never thought about it. I comment because I love interaction and going deeper on the post content. Since most people do not upvote comments, it never really occurred to me that it could be a part of the income stream. But then again, I earn so little on my posts right now, that I don't think about an income stream at all. :)
"I don't think about an income stream at all"
I love this mindset too.