It’s Been 10 Days Since My Last Post and Here is What I Have Learned (Hint: I Should Have Listened to @princewahaj)

I have a confession to make. For the last several weeks, I have been chatting regularly with @princewahaj and upvoting many of his posts. A number of his recent posts have provided advice for Steemit members on how to integrate Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in one’s own posts. These posts are very thorough and well written, yet quite readable to the average user (I should know, since my technical knowledge is quite poor).

His SEO post series offers immense value to Steemit authors and content creators, not to mention big value for Steemit overall. If more Steemians follow his advice, it will help us reach many more people. I hope you’ll check out his blog and read the whole series: https://steemit.com/@princewahaj

However, I will now confess that I have not yet taken the time yet to integrate his advice into my own posts. I did read each of his posts and marvel at his suggestions, but I had to bookmark them to save the actual SEO work for later.

Why am I telling you this now?

I just returned from vacation, having taken one week off. In the week before I left, I made a few posts. The last one was posted 10 days ago, which means that I have had ZERO active posts on Steemit for the last three days. Nada. Nothing to suck the reward pool dry. (By the way, this post is “payment declined”, since I made more $$ than I deserved from my last few posts.)

But somehow, despite not posting, I have gained hundreds of new followers in the last week. So if I’ve had no active posts for the last three days, why has my blog gained more than 100 new followers in the last 48 hours alone?

There are multiple reasons. First, I have been voting and commenting during this time. 48 hours ago was when I returned home from vacation. I can’t stop voting and commenting whenever I’m online. There’s just so much good content these days. Second, my name was published by others as having sponsored a couple of community contests. So each of those activities might have earned me a few new followers.

But here is the main reason I continued gaining followers while having no active posts

It’s because when you search Google for “steem power”, one of my posts comes up as the # 1 result. Try Googling that term and you’ll see it.

This was an old post that I wrote last year, explaining the differences between STEEM, Steem Power, and Steem Dollars (SD as we sometimes called it back then, but now known as SBD for Steem Backed Dollars). The post is now outdated, since there have been several important coding changes since then. Perhaps most significantly, we no longer have the high inflation rate that we had back then. I have tried to explain this in my follow-up comments on that post, but much of the other information in the post is still quite relevant. I'm flattered that people still find it helpful in understanding Steem Power, etc.

That post paid out long ago, so I no longer make any royalties from it. That’s fine with me, since I was fortunate to have joined Steemit very early and was well rewarded for having written it. The post now has over 9,000 views.

Also, I receive several comments each day from people on that post, thanking me for providing helpful information. Presumably, there are many more people who read it and do not send me comments.

In other words, people continue to discover my blog at a steady stream each day via Google. And some of them are discovering Steem and Steemit for the first time, coming in that way.

Would you like your own steady stream of visitors, joining Steemit and boosting visibility for your blog?

Let me humbly suggest that you read @princewahaj’s SEO posts and follow his advice: https://steemit.com/@princewahaj . I am setting aside some time to integrate those strategies into my posts also. Yes, I got lucky once without listening to advice, but if we all follow directions and do this the right way, then many of us can achieve similar results with other posts. Once we have a lot more people optimizing their posts, Steemit should feature much higher in search engine rankings for many different keywords. That will bring us more people and help the entire platform rise.

Destination: Moon.

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