The lovely digital community of Steemit
Bitcoins, Litecoins, Dogecoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Monero are just cryptocurrencies build on top of blockchain technology empowering the digital currency to the world, but what makes Steemit so powerful enough to battle top cryptocurrencies? Steemit isn't just a cryptocurrency build on top of BlockChain technology, but a completely decentralized community filled with lovely people ready to help each other in the best way they can.
We all live in our society but not all of this society are as much helpful as the steemit society. As it has been quoted by Robert Ingersol "We Rise by Lifting Others." which is where the steemit community based on, People help others in their journey of life to the best of them. Miracles don't always happen in real life, but it happens daily on steemit, people sharing article enlighting each other with knowledge and wisdom while others providing inspiration through the Art of drawing, video making, music and through many other ways using their skills.
Steemit community is a mixture of programmers, designers, artists, dancers, YouTubers, bloggers, and people with different occupations and even students and those who don't have any job. But the mixture of this community is the foundation of the power that steemit is built that cannot be found in any other place.
The most recent miracle happening on Steemit which is a case of a young SEO expert and blogger, who's MRI scan is not encouraging and the only way that his life could be saved through surgeries and medications which is a long process and costly. Unfortunately, our fellow Steemer is unable to provide the huge cost of surgery and medication needed to save his life, and here is where the Steemit community plays the biggest part.
On one of his posts "Fellow Steemers, I Need Help as My MRI Results Are Not Encouraging", he has received upvotes from 3377 steemit users, valuing his post at around $17,280.00 which has also many other upvotes on his comments, and the most beautiful part where hundreds of donations has been sent even before the post-payout, providing him enough to cash to be able to cover his costs of medications and part of the surgery cost.
People are supporting him through donations, upvotes, prayers and writing stories encouraging and giving extra hope and life through their digital bond. People having similar stories have written about it, while other writing a beautiful article about him. The biggest donation that has been made to him is 100 steem while other donations being less have contributed towards helping the young blogger.
This isn't the only thing that has happened on steemit. Many YouTubers have joined steemit and found they life being upgraded. A few months ago Youtube has stopped showing ads on accounts with a low number of views and paying publishers very low amount of money. Here is a small but extended list of YouTubers on steemit:
*Avilsd
*Bitcoinmeister
*Craig Grant
*Crypt0
*Dollar Vigilante
*corbettreport
*jerrybanfield
*Maneco64
*Gregory Mannarino
*Realist News
*Sashadaygame
*SGT Report
*sovereigntyintl
*The Money GPS
*Trevon James
*World Alternative Media (josh sigurdson)
*X22 Report
All the above YouTubers are earning more money from steem in a month then they would have earned in youtube, because of the community who likes to help each other.
If we take a look at one of the best YouTubers on steemit @jerrybanfield who keeps sharing very helpful articles and creates awesome videos, he also has many paid tutorials ranging from how to make money on steemit to Android programming and cryptocurrencies and more. His Estimated Account Value of $86,504.92 has let him offer free video courses for the steemit community using the coupon steem.
The most important question is: Where do all these people come from?
According to Alexa, 33.3% of the visitors are from the United States followed by the United Kingdom 7.0% and Germany 5.4% and South Korea 5.2%. But since Alexa ranks are not accurate and they are just estimated we will be using semrush data in this case.
So What are the real percentage of the visitors?
According to Semrush Steemit.com has an average of 1 Million Monthly Visitors. Below are the countries that visitors come from listed in percentage order.
United States of America | 556.7k (54.73%) |
United Kingdom | 92.8k (9.12%) |
Germany | 53.6k (5.27%) |
Australia | 33.7k (3.32%) |
Canada | 33k (3.24%) |
Italy | 24.2k (2.38%) |
Netherlands | 14.6k (1.43%) |
India | 13.3k (1.31%) |
France | 12.3k (1.21%) |
Russia | 10.6k (1.04%) |
Brazil | 9.5k (0.93%) |
Mexico | 8.5k (0.84%) |
As we see the United States is still on top leading by the United Kingdom, Germany, and Australia.
556.7k of the visitors are from the United States which makes 54.73% of the visitors which is where most of the users are from. There is a big difference of the percentages from the first country to the second country by 45.63%. But this doesn't stop here.
34.69% of the visitors come directly to steemit while the majority of the users are from Search Engines making up to 43.30% of the traffic. Of course, as we know the most popular search engine Google contributes to 96.82% of the search engine visitors to the site leading by DuckDuckGo the search engine that does not track its users contributes to 1.74% of the visitors.
Aside from just visitors, how much popularly is steemit?
There is a total of 314,000 backlinks to steemit.com and as above the most backlinks come from the United States 60%.
The most used anchor text for these backlinks are "ᶴ ᶴ ᶴ Steemit - A blockchain-based blog and social media platform that pays you for making and upvoting quality posts".
Steemit Community is one of the best digital communities.
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PoSiTiViTy ! Yeah! I love that handle - "the community that helps each other" -I just shared the story you shared with a friend here - hes like, email me the link so I can make an account. Definately a part of something rare, unique and wonderful here on Steemit!
It's cool to see a post that points out a more human aspect to the crypto culture. Thanks for posting my peep! enjoy!
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Great post @nerdylab !
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