Referrals are going be one of my ways in 2019 of monetizing my content. I don’t write a lot of game reviews like I can and have in the past as they are just too time consuming and to keep up with the gaming industry that’s s $59.99+ per new triple A game where the traffic and people looking to consume content is going be.

In the short term I’ve focusing on SM to that end. I noticed yesterday when I posted a battle report on twitter that it did get some link clicks. Which I was quite surprised by.

I’m in the middle of auditing, better organizing and seeing what content I do have that I’m going try and monetize elsewhere or here in a different way.

One of my biggest hang-ups right now at least in terms of using Steem is just my lack of access to analytics quality data. I don’t know my traffic or can even ballpark number since the only impact I can see is if someone has a Steem account. Then you have all the sources of different platforms using Steem that my content could be viewed on . Even if other sites had traffic data google search results are going bring up my stuff posted on Steemit and not those other platforms.

Without something more concrete contacting a company and striking a deal for a free reviewers version of the game in exchange for me creating content around it is just wasting there and my time. Sadly I am only now getting around to even using something like Twitter so again I can’t give a company any meaningful numbers since I do not have any to speak of.

Later in the year there should be a couple of things in the gaming industry going on where I won’t need to make that direct contact. I can just get a referral link to sell to a store. I know there some smaller opportunity already out there. I just got sit down and roll up my selves to work it all out.

At some point I think I’m just going have to make my own website and go all in if I really want to be earning more than just a dollar off my content. To hard press for time right now and other resources to want jump into that realm.