Steem School EP 16 - How to Stand Out on the Steemit Feed Like a Boss!

It is not very hard to stand out in the Steemit Feed!

The recipe to stand out in the Steemit feed is this: A thumbnail in the right resolution with branding and a text large enough to read on it + a savage title + a first sentence that makes the reader want to read more!

Reputation and the right tags play a role as well: Read (this guide) to choose the right tags which even the pros get wrong to further stand out in the feed. The reputation can only be improved by receiving higher upvotes which I won't explain here because that topic deserves its own post.

A small guide to increase your reputation: Write 2 posts per day, learn more about Steemit for 10 minutes per day and form strong relationships with 10 people only works really good.

That is the recipe but the steps itself are harder to accomplish of course, so how do you create these things?

Two days ago I created a comprehensive guide on (how to create awesome thumbnails) for DTube, you can use that guide to create thumbnails for everything.

I recommend that you open that guide in a new tab and read that after you are done reading this post because creating a badass thumbnail is the first step.

For all the Photoshop pros that already know how to do the basics who just want to add an epic picture and a good readable text to it: You can download the template HERE and skip reading the thumbnail guide.

Creating a Savage Title

A good title is entertaining! A good title is a statement, a question and includes adjectives.

"Howto" titles are very popular and they still do very well and they will never stop doing well.

Here is a very nice picture that shows you tons of examples for very good titles, however, the titles miss savagery (they are not very entertaining) so make sure to add some fun to your titles if you can!

Creating a Hooking First Sentence

The first sentence is what a reader of your blog and the viewer on the Steemit feed sees! So make sure that the first sentence of your post pulls the reader into the article!

That means you do not answer questions there, you can do that in the 2nd sentence or later.

It is an ancient clickbait trick that is used since the creation of the newspaper. Why would anyone read your newspaper if the answer is already in the first sentence?

Newspapers would be 1 page long and nobody would read them anymore. People want to know more, they want to read the details, the backstory & they want to be entertained.

So make sure your first sentence hooks the people into your post!

 

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