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	424.364957	23705	116	49,226
witness-category	397.430284	25206	574	228,125
bitshares	188.678868	38986	3,117	588,112
meetup	125.152252	19155	1,606	200,995
curation	116.976607	31978	4,553	532,594
kr-art	116.970051	34266	1,148	134,282
muksteem	108.13739	55553	1,422	153,771
utopian-io	104.860399	193476	14,294	1,498,875
kr-travel	91.0338595	22996	1,032	93,947
coinkorea	84.0104405	64805	5,996	503,727
adsactly	82.903898	14903	5,315	440,634
steemsilvergold	82.1259637	101098	2,174	178,542
anarchy	80.2608136	16946	6,244	501,149
anarchy	75.2848867	901152	24,693	1,859,010
minnowsupportproject	70.6386766	22205	1,543	108,995
teamaustralia	68.3173272	16098	4,211	287,684
openmic	68.1617521	90819	3,268	222,753
thealliance	67.8315536	18864	4,061	275,464
steemfest	65.5588143	26437	3,167	207,625
kr-event	61.8069264	47230	1,970	121,760
steemstem	59.5090624	39066	9,485	564,443
kr-writing	58.8710705	20324	4,440	261,388
ita	55.2077517	49573	5,952	328,597
steemitworldmap	52.4693668	17502	229	12,015
eos	52.3369651	34556	6,046	316,429
community	50.8305792	36614	18,202	925,218
jjangjjangman	48.3240831	19740	9,770	472,126
kr-join	48.2224849	20039	992	47,837
cn	46.6543533	235619	36,924	1,722,665
kr	45.0125154	1786094	64,946	2,923,383
minnowbooster	45.0082577	25505	1,044	46,989
psychology	43.7633066	30928	13,442	588,266
crypto-news	43.4823619	23631	11,322	492,307
vlog	43.1967007	20256	10,155	438,662
fiction	42.17307	46188	16,519	696,657
treetuesday	41.4847473	19066	736	30,533
howto	41.4487046	14242	6,959	288,442
minnowsupport	38.4619581	28900	6,115	235,195
gardening	38.1815814	32636	6,343	242,186
norway	36.3647306	31773	5,052	183,715
freedom	35.1547081	26494	17,366	610,497
homesteading	34.6834647	66191	7,306	253,397
steemiteducation	33.5545903	47938	10,597	355,578
contest	33.3508285	270662	37,511	1,251,023
giveaway	33.2373747	37567	5,175	172,003
kr-newbie	32.0159389	81208	19,218	615,282
tutorial	30.7933382	10102	10,707	329,704
introducemyself	29.6881603	77313	6,214	184,482
teammalaysia	29.3628213	34749	7,169	210,502
philosophy	28.9804769	51734	27,283	790,674
steem	28.9798559	382971	178,476	5,172,209
creativity	28.697292	9526	20,779	596,301
persian	28.4413105	16914	1,726	49,090
introduction	26.9370374	30402	6,200	167,010
kr-gazua	26.0615338	66665	1,495	38,962
vegan	25.9643452	15438	4,450	115,541
steemitphotochallenge	25.2856735	31333	5,090	128,704
design	24.7635096	11915	16,388	405,824
writing	24.7269347	144782	123,787	3,060,873
support	24.4340961	44766	2,477	60,523
fr	24.0095672	40489	8,029	192,773
help	23.6743209	11103	7,793	184,494
japanese	23.3656719	111701	8,778	205,104
challenge	22.8269435	9170	8,855	202,133
dsound	22.623246	79105	19,348	437,715
cannabis	22.5139048	31559	5,744	129,320
science	22.3026563	83564	52,346	1,167,455
deutsch	22.1125445	150291	29,312	648,163
steemit-health	22.025461	66263	1,525	33,589
conspiracy	21.7403494	10092	7,596	165,140
pt	20.6380654	35742	5,837	120,464
christmas	20.3278129	15430	6,467	131,460
education	20.2678706	29947	31,452	637,465
travel	20.2663901	555946	194,017	3,932,024
cointurk	20.2188657	12817	4,877	98,607
photofeed	19.9908667	54047	18,093	361,695
promo-steem	19.9326659	58197	16,716	333,194
review	19.8995105	8928	15,592	310,273
dlive	19.6229233	301244	48,029	942,469
drawing	18.8525337	50300	37,882	714,172
family	18.726997	21282	24,235	453,849
painting	18.307312	11260	18,917	346,319
cityscapephotography	18.209547	16904	2,609	47,509
india	18.0277776	14068	23,315	420,318
adventure	18.0181083	16287	20,217	364,272
africa	18.0093193	7270	13,954	251,302
business	17.9561145	20117	24,913	447,341
investing	17.8865155	9441	16,492	294,984
landscapephotography	17.5390181	42248	9,215	161,622
steemit	17.2975596	1050322	489,192	8,461,828
whalepower	16.9958104	18307	21,199	360,294
trading	16.881844	23891	34,892	589,041
blog	16.8662773	203431	326,147	5,500,886
creative	16.8512452	6640	16,344	275,417
cats	16.6407258	15874	5,623	93,571
recipe	16.5540361	13501	19,523	323,184
foodphotography	16.4129737	32281	8,567	140,610
food	15.9914995	460744	147,206	2,354,045
money	15.9171104	128136	142,878	2,274,205
blockchain	15.6982927	61868	133,904	2,102,064
tr	15.6062719	90151	25,376	396,025
myanmar	15.5763155	148966	7,456	116,137
ru	15.4635644	14616	12,158	188,006
health	14.9519114	135816	85,897	1,284,324
freewrite	14.9220101	39146	2,372	35,395
story	14.8232566	128644	181,115	2,684,714
busy	14.6258379	218247	229,395	3,355,094
animalphotography	14.6123912	44277	8,016	117,133
gaming	14.6077079	87196	58,275	851,264
dlive-broadcast	14.5601477	2713	41,793	608,512
fitness	14.3848183	16908	12,260	176,358
architecturalphotography	14.2678776	21348	3,791	54,090
art	14.1512703	639049	280,787	3,973,493
goldenhourphotography	14.0878971	32501	4,441	62,564
introduce	14.0869847	15951	4,901	69,040
cooking	14.0439944	7197	12,854	180,522
technology	13.9112207	66574	70,250	977,263
success	13.899162	8865	13,749	191,100
thai	13.8780938	49475	5,202	72,194
history	13.8186102	43669	43,390	599,589
culture	13.6620442	18939	19,673	268,773
sports	13.6240341	76223	43,026	586,188
bwphotocontest	13.5570942	35471	4,682	63,474
steemgigs	13.4521835	17735	8,196	110,254
colourfulphotography	13.4467687	23848	5,846	78,610
nigeria	13.0940577	18511	52,368	685,710
music	13.0274242	152674	115,840	1,509,097
macrophotography	12.894172	30349	8,385	108,118
cars	12.743922	23155	10,279	130,995
game	12.6892205	14395	39,941	506,820
portraitphotography	12.6872693	15579	5,032	63,842
freesteem	12.6114592	20332	1,557	19,636
politics	12.541796	53356	64,013	802,838
artzone	12.4756798	12072	15,589	194,483
philippines	12.4705646	39086	51,719	644,965
vehiclephotography	12.3905204	16157	3,119	38,646
coffee	12.364082	12001	7,387	91,333
life	12.3211071	1022643	1,009,567	12,438,983
cryptocurrency	12.1910355	374933	323,701	3,946,250
dice	12.161375	19721	168	2,043
spirituality	12.01183	14426	13,391	160,850
cervantes	11.9105194	67489	51,223	610,093
streetphotography	11.8331281	24972	6,400	75,732
polish	11.7497771	59583	9,295	109,214
steemph	11.681564	9890	20,824	243,257
resteem	11.5235227	22206	2,514	28,970
animals	11.4919084	44354	36,543	419,949
games	11.4909371	10493	21,853	251,111
advice	11.3777602	13394	5,326	60,598
poetry	11.2186299	164970	65,584	735,763
dtube	11.1959349	197432	159,059	1,780,814
movies	11.0279754	13453	13,202	145,591
film	11.0003045	10577	15,328	168,613
photography	10.8899751	1329417	683,495	7,443,244
lifestyle	10.8654818	8504	25,322	275,136
ethereum	10.6887824	37820	59,300	633,845
monomad	10.6475785	23006	3,502	37,288
motivation	10.2100384	53399	45,821	467,834
investment	10.1721309	4250	15,923	161,971
flowers	10.0341995	18020	22,451	225,278
bitcoin	10.0249981	581933	351,237	3,521,150
sevendaybnwchallenge	9.68725493	65713	15,522	150,366
spanish	9.51724881	671933	126,661	1,205,464
teardrops	9.49885941	12680	4,972	47,228
inspiration	9.48046099	16240	28,853	273,540
castellano	9.33825622	22939	14,983	139,915
christian-trail	9.31419435	26261	15,009	139,797
stach	9.2536941	10335	28,039	259,464
poem	9.12484527	19123	22,167	202,270
fashion	9.06755375	9207	11,460	103,914
walkwithme	8.88943587	26514	3,875	34,447
photos	8.47620538	5415	12,051	102,147
nature	8.45504372	167235	257,373	2,176,100
untalented	8.41963328	20745	17,482	147,192
movie	8.40077088	18780	20,649	173,468
smartphonephotography	8.23657175	44247	24,726	203,657
news	8.1051032	177728	267,798	2,170,530
mining	7.86399065	9174	14,754	116,025
colorchallenge	7.83036982	262524	58,567	458,601
video	7.38341173	48215	152,470	1,125,749
upvote	7.34368095	9788	11,970	87,904
fun	7.27512632	27673	90,464	658,137
steem-network	7.22825424	28204	59	426
religion	7.22506242	40209	25,071	181,140
crypto	7.15023409	80178	188,947	1,351,015
humor	7.14327776	8711	34,461	246,164
trump	7.12932765	6583	13,722	97,829
comedy	7.00583257	5645	17,452	122,266
memechallenge	6.97735389	21692	7,912	55,205
steemchurch	6.93172538	41496	14,817	102,707
beauty	6.92867606	10707	35,729	247,555
people	6.70717934	4081	16,427	110,179
litecoin	6.57916357	11730	14,055	92,470
love	6.56074049	65622	131,110	860,179
altcoin	6.4373525	4392	18,309	117,861
christianity	6.40295246	27176	24,925	159,594
football	6.17170988	17845	29,288	180,757
funny	6.07942253	196656	311,327	1,892,688
sunset	6.01554594	8289	11,309	68,030
cryptocurrencies	5.9115371	8349	16,362	96,725
bescouted	5.8862772	33437	10,386	61,135
anime	5.75123101	8851	11,056	63,586
english	5.62825058	6502	13,281	74,749
market	5.37067524	6098	33,194	178,274
dog	5.35201496	20192	10,091	54,007
photo	5.1635482	57485	163,824	845,913
youtube	5.08355505	13995	44,540	226,422
happy	5.02103604	5519	13,013	65,339
cat	4.93512828	20963	12,956	63,940
celestialchallenge	4.70351253	11678	6,265	29,468
venezuela	4.63902274	19051	27,658	128,306
sex	4.63594717	4332	13,439	62,302
ripple	4.57944999	8444	13,378	61,264
nsfw	4.38116834	30727	31,859	139,580
steepshot	4.31547021	48074	91,550	395,081
live	4.21302473	4476	14,759	62,180
ksi	4.14923912	6856	18,288	75,881
flower	3.94093496	21091	37,285	146,938
free	3.92487283	13002	16,451	64,568
animal	3.82204153	22881	40,865	156,188
indonesia	3.77075176	230217	160,756	606,171
btc	3.51636604	10359	36,447	128,161
sport	3.49783866	16364	54,382	190,219
meme	3.39046158	47585	208,297	706,223
ico	3.30906322	27349	67,300	222,700
entertainment	3.18905065	12449	97,085	309,609
dmania	2.9387603	206914	133,143	391,275
quotes	2.90331663	5854	16,300	47,324
picture	2.87805979	3741	21,022	60,503
quote	2.86866722	12610	22,456	64,419
beautiful	2.79748429	6196	23,071	64,541
esteem	2.45287295	115080	217,192	532,744
amazing	2.40545842	7141	20,226	48,653
test	2.36865266	22974	6,475	15,337
world	2.26998053	7619	51,261	116,361
steempress	2.26322315	4169	13,556	30,680
aceh	2.0428536	68259	141,916	289,914
trending	2.03917763	4867	26,262	53,553
jokes	2.01606649	6088	20,876	42,087
natural	1.97164705	10074	30,591	60,315
zappl	1.94355072	175471	55,019	106,932
airdrop	1.77915294	5545	15,222	27,082
sexy	1.67818207	4301	17,999	30,206
good-karma	1.61676949	4361	18,754	30,321
post	1.42384452	2791	25,013	35,615
new	1.392279	22715	138,002	192,137
hot	1.17706463	3814	21,770	25,625
tag1	0.35643265	32462	245	87
mgsc	0.20576255	12918	4,902	1,009

**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