Characteristics of successful Steemit post

Characteristics of successful Steemit post | Ecency

I just analysed the top 10 most successful posts on Steemit and the below are my findings for what it takes to make a successful Steemit post.

When to post

Time is one of the most important factors when making a successful post on Steemit. The U.S. Eastern time zone rules Steemit. Posts submitted around 9am EST tend to see the most success, whereas posts submitted around midnight EST typically do the worst. I can only guess this is the result of American workers on the east coast coming into work and firing up Steemit before actually starting their day. Also note that the weekends see a larger fraction of successful posts, most likely because there’s fewer posts submitted on the weekend (and therefore less competition).

What to post

Now that we know when to post, we need to figure out what to post. You may already have an article in mind that you want to share, in which case you can skip this section. But if you’re looking for ideas on the kind of content to share, keep on reading. The most important thing to get out of the way is that imgsafe.com — an image rehosting and sharing site — is the domain of choice for most steemers. In fact, nearly 2/3 of all successful posts on steemit were links to an image on imgsafe.

For better or for worse, your post stands the best chance of becoming successful if you’re sharing some form of visual media: images, GIFs, or videos (in that order). Articles sometimes do well in certain categories depending on their focus, but they’re almost always outperformed by post with images. I suspect this is because most steemit users are on mobile devices, which makes reading lengthy articles unappealing.

Where to post

Now that we know to post some sort of visual media hosted on imsafe around 9am EST, we need to figure out where to post it. For that, i looked at all categories for the most successful posts that had made a least $10,000. The most successful seems to be #introduceyourself and #steemit followed by the #travel category.