Clicked for the title, stayed for the photo :-)
Joking aside, I do fully agree that Steemit has a discovery problem and good content doesn't always surface like it should.
If I was to offer one tip it would be that certain times of day seem to be better for posting than others and your timezone might be working against you. The feed moves fast and you need to be on top at the time there are the most eyeballs looking at it - if a big curator picks up your post it'll go off like a rocket - if you post while they are sleeping, it will sink without a trace :-(
At the moment I'm OK with just posting when I have time. I missed nearly a week recently so I can't really pick and choose my posting schedule.
If I find a way of finding good content from any genre then I'll post about it ;)
You can - there are tools that can automatically schedule your posts for you. I've been looking to see which is the best one myself, if I find something good I will let you know.
Agree it is very time specific. But having lived though the Instagram chronological days you need to post outside of your time comfort zone to increase the breadth of user base. If you keep posting at the same time it becomes self for filling and more lucrative to post at that time always and then you end up with a user base that is active at that time and you have to post then or your engagement plummets.
It's hard but it is worthwhile to actually go out of your way and post when none of your followers are online so your in the feed at those hours and can find new followers who are active at those times. This provides some resilience to your engagement levels . The true followers will pick it up anyway regardless of the time of post.
It's certainly an interesting idea, I'll bear it in mind. One thing I would suggest however is that it can be problematic to take things that work on one platform, like Instagram in your case and Reddit in mine, and try to apply those on Steemit. This is a very different, and more challenging enviroment than "regular" social networks.
Yes agree. Each platform is different. I was referring to the old Instagram as well with chronological feed. I have worked reasonably successfully on lots of platforms (500px, EyeEm, Flickr, Google+, FB, etc) and they are all different. It depends what your trying to achieve on the platform as well. In the case of social media influencer work the breadth of reach is important. If you have two posts at say 5pm and get engagement of 4k likes per post, then people often report that they have had an engagement of 8k between the two posts. But they are not likely to be different individuals. You might have only reached 5K people as 3k people are overlapping. If you post at 8am then 5pm and get 3 and 4k likes per post, then you only got 7k likes in total but you might get 6k unique visits as the reach is broader with less overlap so it's worth more to the client.
In the case of Steemit however I agree that for short term benefits where the upvote itself is your reward then scheduling the post and keeping a narrow but engaged follower base at that specific time when the site has maximum activity is a good way to go. In the long run however if you want to post more than one post per day to increase rewards you need to develop multiple follower circles active at different times (ie perhaps 3 times zones peak Asia, peak Europe and peak Americas).
Just post 6 times a day with A+ content...easy
For sure.
In theory it would work.
In theory.
The other strategy is to write lots of small comments into a small sub thread and see if anyone notices them.
I tried posting at different times. It's a hit and miss but mostly miss lol! So I don't know what works. I guess I don't have "true followers?" I should go and find them.
Ha yes. I am still looking for them also ;-)