DClick Solves A Big Problem With Steemit Rewards

Well, actually it solves two big problems. And they are that

• Rewards on your post are only awarded for 7 days
• Rewards are tied to your proximity to steem power holders

Evergreen Content

Let's say you write evergreen content on the intricacies of sports betting, for example. The content of that article doesn't go stale after seven days, but your rewards stop accruing. In contrast, i have pages on some of my sites that haven't been updated since 2016 that are still pulling in at least $0.50 a day. Why should your steem rewards end after 7 days? With dclick, they don't have to.

Decoupling the rewards from steem power

For better or worse, rewards now are based on how close you are with people holding lots of steem power. This tends to mean that quality doesn't matter as much as networking. I'm not going to argue whether that's right or wrong, that's just the system we have.

With DClick, however, you get rewards when someone clicks the ad on your post or page. Their steem power doesn't matter. @hitmeasap had a good post (to link in a bit)about how well steemit pages trend on google for search queries and so if you score a few trending pages on 'Big G', you could get clicks from a lot of users who aren't on Steemit.

Drawbacks and Improvements needed

This deserves a more detailed post but in summary, adding ads into Steemit isn't for everyone. In terms of improvements needed:

• the dashboard doesn't provide much information about the targeting and metrics needed to target readers.
• the quality of the ads
• lack of ads, although this will come with more awareness

Results after a month or so

So, I stuck dclick ads on a few of my website's pages as well as a few steemit posts for a month or so. These were the results so far:

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