Hi.
This strikes me as something of an argument for NOT posting on Steemit? I have the same thing as you on YouTube with my Wordpress blog - my hit rate and thus my advertising revenue keeps going up and up because of posts I wrote months or years ago.
Given that, why should I post on Steemit knowing that I will only get rewarded in the first 7 days? There is no comparable incentive, hence why I have a different posting strategy here to over on sites where I get a slow-burn reward, which certainly has its advantages....not least for my mental health.
With over 500 posts on my blog and ad revenue increasing as well as organic traffic, I switched to posting on Steemit because the Google organic search ranking is WAY higher here by default. When I consider posting for the next several years here or on my blog, posting on Steemit is 10 times better because of the Google ranking, possibility of immediate rewards, and greater likelihood of social sharing.
Within two months on Steemit, my posts were getting nearly double the traffic from Google that years of combined work on my blog took to get. Even with $0 in rewards, Steemit is a better option to get readers. As the price of Steem grows and more users sign up, even $1 in rewards today is likely to equal $10 or $100 worth of Steem in a few years.
Steemit is the best option for the majority of bloggers in the world with one of the main reasons to avoid Steemit being lack of total control.
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OK - Thanks for that detailed reply, that does make sense.
One thing I don't get though is why is 'the Google organic search ranking for Steemit posts way higher by default'? I don't understand why that would be the case?
On the 'lack of total control' thing - I really need to be able to update my posts year on year with my other blog - it's educational, and just for user functionality I need to be able to add in links to contemporary news items.
Steemit has its uses though, I think for personal posts, just not professional use for me! But hey, for monetizing 'myself' it's the best option for sure.
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Do you find that certain days of the week or time of day are better for posting on Steemit?
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This perspective doesn't take into account how much influence posts older than 7 days have on one's likelyhood of voting on a poster's newer content though.
For example, I first read Jerry's work in a crazy old post on a topic I did a search for, and immediately upvoted newer content of his that I found interesting, directly afterwards.
So the first post did have a payout long after a week had passed, just indirectly...
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Yes - that's true!
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It's true, the 7 day character of Steemit is a short window... i guess i need to revisit the reasoning of why it was created like that.
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It would be interesting to know, it doesn't make much sense... it must have something to do with the complexities of blockchain, peer to peer allocation, inflation and probably a whole load of other things.
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Cool guys, so let's work together on this. Like I said I'm trying to get attention for this also and was looking for hosting content like music and video on #Decent or any other platform where there is either
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