The last few days I've been experimenting with adding external Blog post view counters on some of my posts on Steemit.com as I was really interested in seeing how many readers my posts get. Seeing only the number of votes you receive is not enough to get a good enough idea on what is the interest in what you write here. While I still have not found the perfect solution at least there is one that is apparently working and it is not hard to implement, I have explained it in this post.
Let me get back to the number of unique views that the counter is detecting for the Blog posts that I have included the counter in (this post also has a view counter added at the end). The results are really not that encouraging as you can see from the numbers below, but then again none of my Blog posts on steemit with a counter got very popular let alone get trending. So I assume that these "popular" posts are receiving much more attention and get way more views than the average post on steemit that attracts just a bit of attention before getting buried deep.
What I have observed so far is that you get the most views of your post in the first 30 or so minutes before the publication is fresh on the New posts page on steemit, after that it hardly gets much new views. Maybe a few more as it gets near the first payout time, maybe because I'm not the only one regularly checking the payout time posts.
So, let us get to the actual numbers:
1 How to Know How Many People See Your Post on Steemit
Post views: 22, Post Votes: 12, Post Reward: $0.15, Post Age: 2 Days
2 Steemit Post Views Counter Take 2
Post views: 16, Post Votes: 6, Post Reward: $0.06, Post Age: 16 Hours
3 Completely Electric Powered Arc Lighter, Is It Possible
Post views: 12, Post Votes: 6, Post Reward: $0.13, Post Age: 13 Hours
Are you feeling encouraged by the fact that just 10 to 20 people read your Blog posts on steemit, and you probably have spent quite some time to prepare and publish something interesting? This number is far from encouraging and you can only hope that some "big whale" will notice your post and decide it is worth upvoting and making it popular. I'm sure that the trending publications have much more readers than the average Blog post that does not manage to get a lot of attention.
I'm sure that with most new users of steemit it is even harder to get noticed with their first post or first few publications and their Blog posts most likely get even fewer views than the ones above. That is unless you end up lucky and get noticed because you made a really good first introductory post for example, but even then there is no guarantees. Having some followers probably helps, but it takes time and effort in order for you to get noticed by some people who may decide to follow what you post.
I'm sure that if you are somebody famous or have a lot of followers in another place like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter or somewhere else and you come to steemit and announce to your readers/watchers that you started using steemit it will be much easier to get more views on your posts and votes as well, because you will bring some of your fans to steemit as well. So in the end this is a good thing for steemit.com in general and not only for you, however the percentage of such people here is probably very low, so what about the rest of us?
What we have left is to continue with our efforts hoping that at some point the time and effort spent writing on steemit.com will be rewarded in one way or another. Yet again writing things and knowing that just 10 or 20 people are going to see them is not very encouraging at the moment. That does not mean you should start spamming users to check your posts and vote for them on steemit and other places, what you should do is just keep on trying... right... feeling encouraged yet.
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