Steemit tips and tricks for noobs like me

While I'm still a Steemit noob, I love it! I've read the Steemit FAQ and it has given me a few thoughts. I would like to provide some tips and tricks from my limited experience on Steemit based on what makes Steemit different.

Tip 1: Post quality content

I've got a post or two on different platforms detailing how to write for the internet. This is ancient by now, but it's all about writing here on Steemit, and you should be adept at writing for the internet in any event. Many of those tips are still relevant.

That being said, Steemit is designed to give you a good balance between risk and reward. You get rewards by participating in the community, and you run a risk when you just spam. When you pique someone's interest, they'll follow you and they'll upvote you and they'll comment on your posts.

This makes sense from the perspective of motivating people to provide quality content. You're not going to be trending if you try gimmicks, except by accident, and then it won't build your audience. You need to build an audience and you need to do that the slow, hard and steady way.

Tip 2: Promote your content

I've just tried this recently but it seems it doesn't work very well if you promote a post after you've posted it and it has been hanging around for a few days. If you have a bit of dosh in your wallet, consider spending it on promoting a post you're particularly proud of, but ensure that you do so immediately after writing it.

You should see a Promote button on your blog posts. Note that promoting content costs you some Steem rewards. The advantage is that your post would show up in both the New and the Promoted streams.

I haven't had much luck with this yet, but I haven't really given it a chance. Try it if you like and tell me how it worked for you!

Tip 3: Upvote, bitches

When you moderate, the money doesn't come out of your account. The money comes out of a big communal pool. That's why Steemit doesn't have mining like Bitcoin has - it doesn't need it. For more information on this, see where do tokens come from.

But remember, it's all about quality content. While you should be generous with upvoting, remember that you want to upvote something that you really do like in order to motivate good content creation. Just note that the money doesn't come out of your account, it comes from Steemit's moderator pool. So don't worry about it, just love it and use it.

Tip 4: Follow interesting people

By this I mean follow people who share your interests. Their posts will show up in your New feed. Excellent!

Tip 5: Moderate, manhos

Once you've found interesting people, comment on their blog posts! It's as simple as that.

Tip 6: Learn Markdown

This is not crucial, but it couldn't hurt. See the Markdown Styling Guide for more. I haven't really figured out how Markdown works in the comments, but it seems to work pretty much the same as in the blog posts. The intention seems to be to use Markdown everywhere on Steemit! Great idea, and I feel right at home because I'm used to Github and the like.

That's it!

What do you think? Would these tips help you to get trending on Steemit? Let me know in the comments!