Why Do My Articles Die On Steem?
I've been a steemian now for a few weeks, and have like many on Steemit, spent hours and hours, putting together and writing an article, in many cases a whole series of articles, posting them on steemit.com, only to find that no one has really looked at them, or upvoted them much. Which is odd, given that I'm an experienced writer, within the field I write within; financial trading and analysis.
What Can An Author Do To Get Votes?
What can we do as authors, as writers, to make sure that our articles, guides and information is not gone to waste and left to lay in the depths of Steem, never to be found again! What tid bits of advice could you give to someone new, someone like me?
- Tell me and everyone else your secret....
The last thing I want to do is Spam the system, by copying and pasting the same article again, but with a different title and/or choosing a different tag.
As a Steemit author, what is your process for developing content and placing it effectively within steem?
I believe In Steem So Much I....
Steem as a platform in new to me, and I am all in, as I have a Witness Server too, to help as my further contribution to this great community of ours.
"Welcome to the club", stuhisson. I say "welcome"; because I too am coming from an establish writing community (and I am even a book author).
There is now a substantial collection of posts which touch on various aspects of the matter that you raise. I suggest that you try to find them with a cleverly designed keyword search of Google within Steemit.
Look especially for the articles by @paulag and at mine at https://steemit.com/payments/@lestatisticien/how-well-does-your-number-of-up-votes-explain-your-author-payment . However, these are just the beginning of highly relevant commentary (much of which is in the comments to posts) now at the site.
If you need help digging up more relevant materials let me know; because I may have kept a collection of pertinent URLs somewhere on my computer.
One bottom line that I have stated, and which no one has yet challenged, is that you should not expect a reasonable "payment" for your work before you have built up a substantial number of followers (i.e., close to 200+) who are prepared to quickly up-vote your posts, and it may be crucial (if you are writing on a topic where payouts tend to be low on average) that among your followers are one or more 'whales'. Unfortunately, as you are no doubt aware, the process of building up that number of followers could take many months.
In any event, the issue of your posts disappearing into 'ether' within 20 minutes of your putting them up remains unresolved and so you need to find special methods of bringing them to the attention of the people in your community of interest.
Cheers!
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Thanks for the info, that's helpful. Like you, I'm a published author also. In fact, within my field, many moons ago I ran one of Europe's leading online trader training companies. Having said that, I do understand that on new platforms such as steem, that kudos amounts to a hill of nothing, and I am starting from scratch. Which of course I don't mind, but when you see articles just not being seen, it can be disheartening.
I've a YouTube channel also, where I use my knowledge within audio production and media in general, to help people get the most from their TV's and more. I'm in the process of putting them on www.d.tube which is a cool video channel using steem.
Having said that, I do believe in Steemit.com and the Steem currency, so much so I setup a Witness for that very purpose. Thanks once again for your links.
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