Okay, so I've been on here for a couple of days now (3 whole days 👹) and I started to wonder - what would get my posts seen?

The (wannabe) internet marketer in me, began searching for legit Steemit hacks. Something that would give my posts that extra boost (💉).

The obvious answer to me came in the form of tags (📌📌📌 Tags, not tacks).

Now obviously, everyone here is using tags, and we are limited by the number we can use.
5 to be exact, the first being the most important - (category) tag.

As we all know, using tags on Steemit is of extremely important.

So how do we get more eyes (👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️👁️‍🗨️) on our posts, while being limited to only 5 tags?

Well, I ran (🏃) an experiment.

The Experiment

I went over to the tags section. www.steemit.com/tags
Looked up tags with the least posts (🕸🕸🤓🕸🕸).
And added those tags to my article.

Experiment Analysis:

So what tags did I use?

I used the following tags in this order (these tags had the lowest number of posts associated with them at the time I wrote the article):

gridcoin (💰)

beachwednesday (🌊🐳 🐬🌅)

charlesfuchs (somebody make this man a smiley!)

msp3k (🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖)

minnowsfaucet (🐋💦)

Experiment Result:

I got 37 eyes on that post since yesterday (not a lot by a long shot - but consider that post has been flagged 🚩🚩🚩 8 times!).

The guys from # gridcoin took offence to the fact that I used their hashtag in the experiment and flagged my article.

Consequently, the article then took a turn for the worst. As I mentioned above (☝) 8 more flags followed.

While my intention was not to "abuse" (📛) any tag (not even sure if that's a thing), I apologized and flagged my own article.
As I'm not here to hurt anyone's feelings. :)

Being a new member, I almost felt as if I was on the receiving end of the abuse (📛📛📛). Regardless, I'm writing this article to document the results of my little experiment, not to whine about a small misunderstanding.

Conclusion:

Tags are an important aspect of 🚂Steemit💨 (dude, we all know that!)

All right, all right, butusing them wisely (👳) is the key. Here's how I suggest you do it.

1. Use tags that are either new/have the least number of posts. In order not to infuriate the "keepers of these tags", try to write something relevant to them.

2. Use tags that are closely related to the topic of your article, while making sure they have the least number of posts. This will ensure that your article does not get lost/pushed down in the sea of posts that arise with popular tags.

Low volume tags used in this post

(🚩I've explained why I've added these tags here, just in case someone takes "offence" to the use of my tags and down votes/flags this article 🚩)

Imagining a world in which everyone has to explain why they chose to use their tags
😵😵😵

On that note, here are the tags:

steem-help - Because I genuinely feel this could help other Newbies out there)

abuse - Cause this is a great article about down voting/flagging peoples content - Down voting : A Motivational Killer or A Strategic Use of Power?

beachwednesday - Because... I... wrote this on a beach on Wednesday.... Promise! ;)

charlesfuchs - Cause this guy puts out excellent content and has an account any new Steemit user should try to emulate. Follow him here - @stackin

🚂# steemit💨 - Well, this one isn't low volume, but it is relevant. 😄

I really do hope this helps. 🤗🤗🤗

Here's my Introduction post (chose to go full Steem Power with it, not sure if good move or not!)

Yes, placing these smileys in the post took me a hellovalotta time(🕛🕐🕑🕞🕟🕠)!

Here's a post on how you can use smileys in your article!

Alternatively, you can use the Emoji Cheat Sheet I just found. Simply copy and paste!

Try your own experiment with tags and feel free to post your results here!

Until then, full 🚂Steem💨ahead!