As a marketing consulting, I always advice clients to niche themselves in market segments that are to their advantage, so they can have the edge over the competition. I started realising that a big part of being successful at Steemit is in the choice of tags I used, so I started compiling a simple excel sheet daily to tabulate the tags with the highest profitability - high payouts, low competition.

Kinda like SEOs' "high searches, low bids".

Hopefully, it can help you tag your Steemit posts effectively, and even help you identify profitable topics that you can write on. Stay awesome!

*If you need some quick tips on how to implement the info here, or why is it important, scroll till you reach the end of the table.

Tag	Profitability	Comments	Posts	Payouts
charlesfuchs	440.172264	23681	110	48,419
witness-category	412.646883	25305	546	225,305
bitshares	188.625627	38904	3,102	585,117
meetup	128.032719	18996	1,560	199,731
curation	114.997629	31982	4,577	526,344
kr-art	113.435947	34497	1,171	132,833
utopian-io	103.245552	194051	14,323	1,478,786
muksteem	96.7021252	55685	1,557	150,565
kr-travel	86.4269869	23258	1,072	92,650
coinkorea	81.8132665	64948	6,112	500,043
adsactly	80.3569514	14955	5,369	431,436
anarchy	79.1745854	16863	6,297	498,562
steemsilvergold	79.0912934	100829	2,212	174,950
introduceyourself	74.0865137	902477	25,035	1,854,756
minnowsupportproject	70.8506955	22237	1,537	108,898
teamaustralia	67.1774475	16196	4,226	283,892
openmic	67.0403045	90839	3,284	220,160
steemfest	65.4368755	26436	3,172	207,566
thealliance	64.6106793	18923	4,197	271,171
steemitworldmap	60.2233333	17560	195	11,744
kr-event	58.567765	47120	2,047	119,888
steemstem	58.106643	39146	9,524	553,408
kr-writing	57.7850871	20437	4,489	259,397
ita	54.4023628	50085	5,975	325,054
community	50.0968882	36503	18,252	914,368
eos	49.8258577	35083	6,176	307,724
kr-join	46.4165885	20169	1,023	47,484
cn	46.2606756	236146	37,026	1,712,848
jjangjjangman	45.5588997	19707	10,093	459,826
minnowbooster	45.0759624	25552	1,037	46,744
kr	44.0252252	1791550	65,798	2,896,772
psychology	43.4411384	31185	13,464	584,891
crypto-news	43.2366814	23633	11,337	490,174
vlog	42.3944218	20350	10,201	432,465
fiction	41.9363002	46321	16,448	689,768
howto	41.0103912	14223	6,996	286,909
treetuesday	40.6099219	19130	743	30,173
minnowsupport	38.2092422	28941	6,098	233,000
gardening	37.1771665	32501	6,444	239,570
norway	35.8583753	31840	5,087	182,412
freedom	34.862867	26463	17,384	606,056
homesteading	34.0384945	66128	7,337	249,740
steemiteducation	33.0359725	48266	10,672	352,560
contest	32.6958413	271687	37,622	1,230,083
giveaway	32.3446495	38000	5,147	166,478
kr-newbie	31.3998364	81281	19,506	612,485
tutorial	30.4430335	10106	10,780	328,176
introducemyself	29.1720529	77586	6,308	184,017
teammalaysia	28.9464532	34736	7,164	207,372
steem	28.7477155	382083	178,201	5,122,872
philosophy	28.6460337	52013	27,434	785,875
creativity	28.3389016	9529	20,904	592,396
persian	28.293128	16917	1,735	49,089
introduction	26.6210527	30477	6,256	166,541
vegan	25.2943201	15456	4,495	113,698
steemitphotochallenge	25.1677875	31329	5,102	128,406
writing	24.4738058	144702	124,131	3,037,958
design	24.1831704	11921	16,564	400,570
help	23.539893	11049	7,786	183,282
support	23.4852904	45453	2,483	58,314
fr	23.2970466	40718	8,129	189,382
japanese	22.7285276	112233	8,862	201,420
challenge	22.3725518	9188	8,946	200,145
kr-gazua	22.2260592	67313	1,671	37,140
cannabis	22.173791	31602	5,766	127,854
steemit-health	22.1238376	66259	1,515	33,518
dsound	22.0658358	79161	19,432	428,783
science	22.0421735	83764	52,424	1,155,539
deutsch	21.7260369	150277	29,442	639,658
conspiracy	21.6055219	10058	7,588	163,943
christmas	20.3108132	15433	6,472	131,452
pt	20.2640557	35533	5,830	118,139
travel	20.0291054	556747	194,162	3,888,891
education	20.0095066	30024	31,481	629,919
review	19.6913022	8837	15,587	306,928
cointurk	19.6437579	12648	4,840	95,076
promo-steem	19.615343	58119	16,779	329,126
photofeed	19.3527869	54232	18,224	352,685
dlive	18.7615536	301374	48,349	907,102
drawing	18.5973427	50620	38,135	709,210
family	18.3726444	21514	24,437	448,972
painting	18.048282	11268	19,098	344,686
africa	17.8725056	7355	13,990	250,036
adventure	17.8635324	16295	20,170	360,307
india	17.765853	13985	23,297	413,891
business	17.7477642	20190	25,041	444,422
investing	17.5659638	9486	16,568	291,033
cityscapephotography	17.3112604	16933	2,680	46,394
steemit	17.1827589	1049787	489,044	8,403,125
landscapephotography	17.0883008	42450	9,253	158,118
whalepower	16.8870479	18348	21,180	357,668
trading	16.7052651	23962	34,910	583,181
creative	16.6827488	6532	16,401	273,614
blog	16.6685878	203413	326,399	5,440,610
cats	16.5203995	15894	5,615	92,762
recipe	16.4619758	13601	19,428	319,823
foodphotography	16.0769687	32273	8,559	137,603
food	15.8439541	460730	147,086	2,330,424
money	15.6688516	127996	143,494	2,248,386
blockchain	15.3981622	61508	134,656	2,073,455
tr	15.3418444	90582	25,361	389,085
ru	15.3253141	14637	12,194	186,877
myanmar	15.2827082	149883	7,540	115,232
health	14.7598262	135785	86,239	1,272,873
story	14.7231174	128659	181,142	2,666,975
busy	14.539901	215471	227,005	3,300,630
freewrite	14.400092	39369	2,401	34,575
gaming	14.3986359	87385	58,317	839,685
fitness	14.2175913	16876	12,248	174,137
dlive-broadcast	14.0621753	2713	42,141	592,594
animalphotography	14.0146488	44383	8,151	114,233
art	14.0082445	639638	281,276	3,940,183
introduce	13.9219564	15899	4,930	68,635
goldenhourphotography	13.8761696	32533	4,429	61,458
cooking	13.8582956	7272	12,893	178,675
architecturalphotography	13.8518049	21432	3,850	53,329
history	13.6868247	43604	43,505	595,445
success	13.6684144	8853	13,830	189,034
bwphotocontest	13.6370689	35354	4,644	63,331
technology	13.630871	66286	70,662	963,185
culture	13.5992645	18955	19,628	266,926
sports	13.5966847	75960	42,201	573,794
thai	13.5038043	49713	5,264	71,084
colourfulphotography	13.0951368	23803	5,893	77,170
steemgigs	13.080394	17747	8,335	109,025
nigeria	12.8624544	18446	52,612	676,719
music	12.8391902	153221	116,045	1,489,924
freesteem	12.8194872	20327	1,529	19,601
cars	12.513208	23083	10,368	129,737
politics	12.4696461	53349	63,850	796,187
dice	12.4529878	19740	164	2,042
portraitphotography	12.4517262	15682	5,052	62,906
coffee	12.2361241	12039	7,412	90,694
game	12.2201279	14770	40,185	491,066
philippines	12.2195163	39031	52,272	638,739
life	12.2046443	1022509	1,009,872	12,325,129
macrophotography	12.1833259	30720	8,667	105,593
cryptocurrency	12.0191937	375117	324,294	3,897,752
vehiclephotography	11.9791708	16268	3,179	38,082
spirituality	11.792697	14353	13,489	159,072
artzone	11.7405164	12201	15,814	185,665
cervantes	11.6331505	67872	51,681	601,213
streetphotography	11.5726198	24858	6,436	74,481
steemph	11.5318715	9899	20,950	241,593
polish	11.4881274	59963	9,343	107,334
resteem	11.464093	22210	2,506	28,729
animals	11.3380771	44389	36,726	416,402
games	11.3238267	10564	21,953	248,592
advice	11.1897459	13383	5,324	59,574
poetry	11.1161571	165156	65,708	730,420
dtube	10.9668165	197298	159,409	1,748,209
film	10.9086741	10612	15,314	167,055
movies	10.8779187	13576	13,231	143,926
photography	10.7628587	1329463	684,369	7,365,767
lifestyle	10.6267593	8616	25,243	268,251
ethereum	10.5761494	37860	59,469	628,953
monomad	10.257392	23139	3,556	36,475
motivation	10.0910256	53611	45,870	462,875
bitcoin	9.91959635	581082	351,639	3,488,117
flowers	9.7953097	18047	22,709	222,442
investment	9.72796267	4241	15,967	155,326
sevendaybnwchallenge	9.60224333	65858	15,633	150,112
inspiration	9.36714077	16211	28,926	270,954
spanish	9.32043134	674021	127,547	1,188,793
christian-trail	9.13281901	26316	15,084	137,759
stach	9.09395478	10334	28,171	256,186
poem	9.00531741	19055	22,236	200,242
fashion	8.99440035	9343	11,480	103,256
teardrops	8.98245058	12807	5,049	45,352
castellano	8.9432474	23299	15,190	135,848
walkwithme	8.78732716	26465	3,888	34,165
photos	8.36458453	5431	12,097	101,186
nature	8.34667513	166833	257,518	2,149,419
untalented	8.28547222	20723	17,672	146,421
movie	8.24411463	18839	20,797	171,453
news	8.01835687	177928	268,274	2,151,117
smartphonephotography	7.97079367	44113	25,013	199,373
mining	7.78462488	9195	14,814	115,321
colorchallenge	7.7038457	260640	58,543	451,006
steem-network	7.33106897	28217	58	425
upvote	7.32170953	9727	11,867	86,887
video	7.29944299	48252	152,947	1,116,428
wafrica	7.21397341	3634	13,765	99,300
religion	7.1699479	40225	25,127	180,159
fun	7.15339953	28060	90,668	648,584
trump	7.00378628	6547	13,850	97,002
humor	6.99959282	8752	34,722	243,040
crypto	6.98625498	80274	189,453	1,323,567
memechallenge	6.9050937	21766	7,962	54,978
beauty	6.87814782	10654	35,821	246,382
comedy	6.77559044	5752	17,648	119,576
steemchurch	6.77189598	41378	14,776	100,062
people	6.615741	4033	16,552	109,504
litecoin	6.53002383	11732	14,100	92,073
love	6.49768396	65504	131,169	852,295
altcoin	6.37490328	4425	18,362	117,056
christianity	6.3300727	26910	25,019	158,372
football	6.00585047	17612	28,817	173,071
funny	6.00509237	196604	312,322	1,875,522
sunset	5.94004266	8306	11,323	67,259
cryptocurrencies	5.90573109	8361	16,191	95,620
bescouted	5.82271521	33624	10,376	60,416
anime	5.65888875	8940	11,119	62,921
english	5.44900327	6534	13,456	73,322
market	5.34527066	6117	33,115	177,009
dog	5.18359973	20337	10,288	53,329
photo	5.08074097	57579	164,280	834,664
youtube	5.07105431	13927	44,264	224,465
happy	4.94678872	5536	13,087	64,739
cat	4.86504394	20934	13,017	63,328
celestialchallenge	4.70199489	11675	6,263	29,449
sex	4.60137135	4358	13,510	62,165
venezuela	4.56937458	19033	27,826	127,147
ripple	4.51385701	8474	13,372	60,359
nsfw	4.35668677	30783	31,893	138,948
steepshot	4.22461785	48128	91,943	388,424
ksi	4.1262875	6828	18,299	75,507
live	4.12038595	4500	14,857	61,217
flower	3.85864027	21260	37,492	144,668
free	3.85687023	13002	16,598	64,016
animal	3.78298069	22858	40,920	154,800
indonesia	3.72686434	230462	160,848	599,459
btc	3.45057929	10401	36,648	126,457
sport	3.42016128	16331	54,333	185,828
meme	3.35501106	47767	209,100	701,533
ico	3.21389412	27476	67,796	217,889
entertainment	3.15035105	12573	97,368	306,743
dmania	2.89214164	207377	134,677	389,505
picture	2.86326205	3721	20,920	59,899
quotes	2.85913228	5759	16,268	46,512
quote	2.83097853	12626	22,500	63,697
beautiful	2.75153903	6174	23,108	63,583
esteem	2.38213966	115173	217,459	518,018
amazing	2.3730899	7149	20,277	48,119
test	2.32418395	22800	6,529	15,175
world	2.21758403	7613	51,234	113,616
trending	2.02610145	4786	26,290	53,266
aceh	2.02086303	68340	142,241	287,450
jokes	2.00799197	6086	20,913	41,993
natural	1.95513222	10070	30,692	60,007
zappl	1.93821312	175600	55,050	106,699
airdrop	1.68744203	5617	15,397	25,982
sexy	1.6660554	4278	18,050	30,072
steempress	1.65554747	4575	13,420	22,217
good-karma	1.60077164	4413	18,777	30,058
post	1.39700268	2815	25,030	34,967
new	1.37879749	22806	138,584	191,079
hot	1.16715586	3858	21,885	25,543
tag1	0.36385833	32452	240	87

**Those in bold & italics are tags with high engagement (high number of comments).

How to make these numbers work for you?

1. If you look at the tags with the highest payouts, they usually have highest number of posts too. The analogy is this: imagine a huge pond with tons of people in it. It's crowded, and it's not gonna be an enjoyable swim. Imagine looking further down the road, and you see another pond, much smaller, but with only a handful of people. Ahhhh…. Heavenly instagramer (sorry, Steepshot-er) moment!

2. So one way of leveraging on this table of info, is after you've done drafting your content and about to post it, identify a few tags with good profitability.

   Please make sure the tags make sense though! It's pointless to insert a profitable tag but your content have nothing to do with it. You'd pissed your readers off!

3. Another way you can use this info, is to identify high profitable tags, and produce contents around them.

4. You may also want to take note of the number of comments, because it tells you what kind of contents get more engagement.

5. Do take note not all tags can be used, no matter how profitable they are. Some tags are for private groups or communities. Always do a research on them before using.

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Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. I mostly blog about Steemit Success Strategies, business, marketing, entrepreneurship, psychology, community and random thoughts.

Talking about Steemit Success Strategies, if you want to 10x your results on this platform, perhaps some of these guides will be able to help you.

1. How to generate at least 365 post ideas for your Steemit Life (and possibly never run out of ideas again!)
2. The 4 Big Cs of Steemit Success
3. 8 Content Strategies to Excite & Engage your Steemit Followers
4. 29 Steemit Post Types to Attract More Followers & Boost Your Popularity (Part 1)
5. 29 Steemit Post Types to Attract More Followers & Boost Your Popularity (Part 2)
6. Copywriting Magic for Steemit: "How To" Post Titles
7. Copywriting Magic for Steemit: "List Type" Post Titles
8. Steemit Success Strategies #1 - The Law of Requisite Variety
9. Steemit Success Strategies #2 - Batching + Parkinson's Law
10. Four + Four Free Tools to get more exposure for your Steemit Projects
11. How to apply the 80/20 rule to your Steemit Life
12. Steemit Experiment Report: 21 days, 21 minutes, 21 posts later, PLUS an 8-Step Guide on How to Write a Steemit Post every day under 30 minutes
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At least once a month, I run Steemit community events and training workshops with my buddies at #teammalaysia too. Some examples are:

1. Steemit Bootcamp March 2018 - KICKSTART Your Steemit Success
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Wait, why's Mav posting on Steemit nowadays?

Well, unlike other blogging and social media platform, Steemit is the only platform that allows me to earn cryptocurrency when I engage with it. Yup, one Steem is about USD5, and you, too, can earn Steem Dollars every time you:

• Create content (articles, blog posts, podcasts, videos, photos)
• Upvote (like) other people contents
• Comment on other people's posts
• Have discussions, share opinions etc!

Yup, basically it's the very same thing you're doing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc all along!

The only difference? For once you can earn a nice income on the side!

Sign up for a free Steemit account, and you can thank me by coming back and upvoting this article. And guess what, you will earn Steem too for doing that! #awesome