RE: WANT TO MAKE $500/POST ? Watch how easy or non-easy it is....
With all due respect, post quality cannot be the only road to riches. I follow someone (@dullhawk) who posts absolutely mind-blowing stuff daily and yet rarely pulls in more than $2 a post. I'd like to think I put decent effort into my own content as well, and I rarely break $1.00.
Something else got her a dedicated following that regularly supports her content. Maybe it was a resteem by someone with a lot of followers, maybe it was using bots to edge towards the top of "trending" or "hot" pages (anyone know what the difference is between the two, by the way?), maybe it was just by regularly blogging and interacting with others. And I'm of course not saying quality content isn't important. But something else got her a big enough following to regularly pull $500 a post. It couldn't have been quality alone.
God bless you for this comment, I thought as much too, you took the words right out of my mouth, most times you put in countless number of hours compiling a quality post and won't even make $1. Very discouraging and next time, you won't be as motivated to invest that amount of time and energy into compiling another post. Not saying the quality of post doesn't matter, of course it does, are we going to overlook the fact that she built herself an audience first whether organically or not, that I don't know for sure. Not taking any credit away from her cos which ever way she did it involves hardwork and strategic planning. She has the exposure and quite easy to pull that amount per post. Believe me, if she decides to make 2-3 post a day, she would also pull close to that amount too. She is easily noticeable cos of her huge following and trending post, newbies generally crowd around such people, thereby increasing her audience. I followed her the very first day I was on Steem, I noticed how popular she was and I followed her even without reading her blog and posts. Am sure lot of newbies are like that too. To state also she puts in enough energy and effort into her writing kudos to her cos she does this knowing if she puts up crap, she would still rack up votes and comments. I kinda like her though but the writer suggesting only great content can get you there is abit misleading. You need that audience. You could imagine thousands of quality post that don't get seen or noticed in the platform.
That happens today, in the hundreds.
Eventually in the thousands...
and when you have tens of millions here...
It could happen in the millions.
There is one significant difference..
Your fans, followers, and people who like you will always come back.
So do them a good service. Write quality content. Don't abuse them. They'll love you for it.
If you were that grateful for my comment, you could have upvoted it. :D
No it wasn't... everytime she gets paid she re-invests her payouts into upvotes again.
But that wasn't the point of the story. 3 of you now have done this:
If you read this single post and ignore payouts, and how she got paid so well...
You'll see why I was saying a good, full, quality post, deserves to be awarded in the future as steemit matures:
https://steemit.com/travel/@purepinay/waterfalls-of-valencia
This is not about:
It is about
...and if you get the point... of where quality is "going to go"... we'll both stop talking about bots and re-steems and "trending" and "hot"... because none of it is key to the point I was trying to make.
You must be a speed reader. :)
I did read your entire post, but I guess I'm not getting what the "this" is that you asked me not to do. Is it to disagree with the premise that only quality is important? Well, sorry for debating with you, then. :P
So why, then, do you think quality will be even more important in the future than it is now?