Here's a short tutorial about posting on Steemit for beginners. I've put this together because I was a bit confused about how to post images and how to format the post correctly.

The first thing you do is click “Submit a story” and there you're faced with a title area, content area, and the tags area.

The title area

the title should be catchy and of interest to Steemians. You can see the title in the feed. And, you can also see the first line of the content.

You can also include emojis 👨‍🏫 in the title and they show up in the feed as well!

Next we come to the content area.

Editor or Markdown?

The Editor will give you a normal line of icons that you will recognize from other text editors online or from word processing packages. It’s great however there is no way you can upload an image direct from this editor at the moment which is a shame.

So I tend to use markdown

Here is a link to the markdown cheat sheet. You'll quickly get the hang of doing subheadings, bold, italics, and links. It's very easy.

Images

I tend to make or choose images that are about 700 pixels wide and that is wide enough for them to look centered in page when it’s published. Try to optimize these images otherwise they’ll take a long time to load for visitors wanting to view your post. I use JPEGoptimizer to resize and optimize images.

Featured or thumbnail image

The featured or thumbnail image that appears in the feed is the first image you use in the post. If you use a video before you use an image then the thumbnail is the thumbnail from that video.

Movies

Just paste the URL of the YouTube or Vimeo video.

Animated GIFs

Just paste the URL from Giphy.com.

Tags

I always add five keywords or tags separated by spaces. You must add at least one tag. The first tag is considered to be the main tag or topic of the post and it dictates where it is to be seen on Steemit.

You can choose your tags here. You'll see which ones are popular by the payout and post numbers of the tags.

One last thing

To the right of the Post button there is an option to upvote your own post. I always have that checked.

And you can choose whether you want the rewards to be 50/50, 50% Steem Power and 50% Steem Backed Dollars. However, I choose to power up 100%, as I want all the proceeds to go back into Steem Power.

Increasing Steem Power is the name of the game

At the moment, all I’m trying to do is to increase my Steem Power. Because, Steem Power earns interest and it gives me more clout on the platform. And I only need a few Steem Backed Dollars to pay bots to upvote my posts.

Hope this helps

Did this help you? Or was it too basic? Let me know in the comments whether you'd like more of these Steemit tutorials or not.

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