I am still very new to the Steemit community and I only started making posts a couple of weeks ago. The general attitude that I took while starting was that I would figure it out as I went along. To say the least it has been an interesting road and my love for the Steemit content platform technology has only continued to grow.
That being said I just learnt something today that most people probably already know. Whenever you make a post you will only be rewarded Steem Dollars for the first 7 days. Any votes you receive after the 7 day period will not be accompanied with Steem Dollars. I made the mistake of trying to revitalize old forgotten posts by spending Steem in order to promote them, but this was all for nothing as I was not paid for any of the new votes. Steemit used to payout for content twice I believe. The first time would happen after 24 hours and the second after 30 days. After completing a hard fork a few months ago, they changed this policy for the single 7 day payout system that is in use today.
So for those of you who don't know, if you decide to spend money on promoting one of your posts be sure to do it right away rather than later, so that your content gets the most revenue as possible and you don't waist your Steem on promoting content that is past the 7 day mark.
Thanks for reading this quick post and I hope this has helped someone out there who is new to this system like I am.
Check out my recent post on Steemit's upvote system here:
Do Not Abuse the UpVote!! | What Happens and What to do if Overused?
Until next time.
Sincerely,
Grayson
Never promote. That feature never worked and is a waste. Don't use your SBD on anything except cashing out. You earned them so why lose them.
I partially agree with you. I have spent Steem Dollars promoting posts that haven't seen any returns but others that have seen massive ones. My approach is to see how the post is doing after an our or so and if it seems like people are responding to it then put down a few Steem Dollars to give it a boost.
Thanks for reading!!
If you end up making $150 Steem Dollars from a post, in the end what is 5 Steem Dollars to promote and help it along:-P
Promoting with a bot you calculated the return on and through the promote feature of steemit are different
The site feature is worthless and you may as well shit in your wallet and flush it all but the bots work typically if no one nukes you after.
Go to my profile and read the post titled Winning on Steem. Dont upvote it man but read the first part and use the links.
Hmm I will have to do some more research into it.
Thanks for the info.
If you have a hardon for the site promo feature go to the top promoted and see what they paid. You have to match it to get to the top. Otherwise it does nothing. 50-20 sbd usually
Haha funny you mention that, as this is exactly what I started doing. Before I wasted so much Steem promoting things with around 15 to 30 Steem dollars thinking that more is better. Once I realized you are just competing with the people in a given thread I started putting only .05 Steem on a post and depending on the category it was at the top. I post a lot of automotive content and right now there isn't any competition so if you put even .01 Steem into a post to promote it, you will find it at the top :-P
And you got returns from that strategy?
Im new to steemit and did not know this. As a person that's trying to gain followers and revenue this is a good thing to know. Thank you so very much keep up the good work on here and on youtube!
Thanks for the feedback, I am happy to know that this helped someone. I have been on Steemit for about a month now and only just found out :-P
I did not know this. Thanks for sharing!
well since sbd went up there is no need for boost,even tho i must addmit that something must chage couse waves are getting payed bigone and minnow not so much.... upvoted
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