The TRULY Most Lucrative Topics on Steemit (Proven by Data Analysis)

in #steemit7 years ago

I probably shouldn’t share this and keep it secret until I can take all the advantage from it,

but I have learned so much from so many of you that the least I can do is return the favor.

Most people believe that the most lucrative topics are “steemit”, “life”, “photography”, “art” because they often seem them at the top on the right column of the Steemit site.

However, these are NOT the most lucrative categories.

They do receive, as a category, the highest payouts, but

because they are so popular, they also have a larger amount of posts,

making each most less lucrative on average.

To find out which category is IN FACT the most lucrative for individual posts. I gathered all the data from the tags page and ran some simple formulas.

HIGHEST PAYOUT PER POST

First I divided total payouts by total posts for each category.

This showed me how much payout each post was receiving on average.

As you can see, “steemit” falls all the way to the 45th place, very far from #1.

The topic of “life”, which is thought to be the 2nd best topic to write about, is actually ranking as #78. “Photography” which is thought as #3, is actually ranking at #111.

Things are not what they seem, you got to dive deeper to find the truth. Here is the table showing how “topics” TRULY rank in terms of payout per post.

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MOST COMMENTS PER POST

The second thing I did was to analyze which topics are getting the most comments per post.

Once again, the “Steemit” topic ranked way lower than expected at #54, receiving just 2.2 comments per post on average.

“Life” was found all the way at #107, with less than 1 comment per post.

The most rational use of this information would be to use it to write about topics that average the most comments since comments lead to more comments, more upvotes, more followers and more monetary gains for everyone.

Here is all the data for your delight:

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IMPORTANT CONSIDERATIONS

After seeing these charts you may think that you now need to start spamming these topics in order to make the most gains.

This, however, would be a futile approach because,

if others do the same, that would lead to topic saturation and reduce the payout and comment averages for everyone.

It is also important to consider that, even though some topics are very lucrative, they will not produce high earnings for everyone who uses them, regardless of how high the average payout is.

The reason for this is that posts with those topics tagged are usually written by people who know about those topics.

It is likely that the average new user will not be proficient in understanding or exploring ideas dealing with the “witness-category”, “bitshares”, “steemfest” or “steemdev” and readers of blogs with these tags will surely be able to differentiate between expert content and content by users trying to get one up on the system.

HOW TO USE THIS INFORMATION

The most effective way to use this data is by simply sticking to the topics you are already good at and

checking the data to see which meaningful tags are best to use.

This is how I have been using it:

I simply write about whatever I want to write and then go down the list,

adding the first keyword that appear to be relevant and have a high payout average.

Of course, I will need to re-do this analysis in a few months, especially if this post becomes popular.

So go ahead, follow me, and stay tuned for updates and useful information to improve your Steemit experience.

Blessings

@BrunoTreves

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Nice. I do a similar weekly analysis for 49 tags that I'm interested in. You can check my last one from a few days ago: https://steemit.com/curation/@anonimnotoriu/my-steemit-curation-and-followings-5

Sweet! Thanks! =D

Great post and so helpful. I noticed a definite change in response with using different tags recently, and this data supports that, and provides great information to work with. Thanks so much for sharing!

Thank god https://steemit.com/tags finally works.

NICE!! Now, if you would be able to filter out all posts from people with a high ranking, for example everything above 60 or every account with more than 5,000 STEEM value, you probably get even much more accurate results for the average Joe.
Why? The reason for some wrong perception of lucrative tags is, that many high ranking steemians are active in a certain category, hence attract loads of money there. But that does not mean, that every or even most postings in that category will yield higher profits. It's just the averages. In order to find the best nieches for average Joe, you have to delete the most popular steemians from your data.

This is penultimate. The whales are dominating the entire platform and if the platform doesnt change to stop the vote power hoarding dynamic and letting great content go un-upvoted we are going to lose a lot of new users, and ultimately STEEM will tank, because all the people with lots of SP are just sitting back, throwing out some SBD for contests, and not adding anything of substance to the platform and saving all the voting power for themselves and a few buddies. This could really tank the entire platform if not fixed soon. People should be free to upvote what they think is good, and not upvote themselves. People won't upvote or give so few and worthless that in 5 days it is worth 1/10 of what it was @ 12hrs post-post. Great info you definitely deserve as many upvotes as views! I would resteem but I want to hoard this information for myself haha. Since self interest is now the most valuable thing on Steemit 👎 This thing needs to be fixed asap bc I for one am really not enjoying spending hours on a post to get $1. Not even worth the time to create content and if that becomes the norm new users will not stay and Steemit.com will add nothing to the internet other than a few people who made a lot of money (not working at all) and a lot of others who spent weeks worth if time, months even, posting to get a few hundred dollars at best. And putting it all into SP while the whales cash out every day with $1,000 posts for a stupid contest. Sorry. Great post. Just super jaded with Steemit lately.

You might like my posting about this issue. You make a few hints about in which direction solutions could be found. Good start. https://steemit.com/steemit/@dinoo/clif-high-s-predictions-for-steem-in-bare-naked-wealth-report-we-have-a-challenge-here-guys

I wish Steemit only the best, but you are on the point.

Yes. You are right, that is my next project.

very good one ! Thanks for the data !

This comment has received a 1.07 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @digital-gypsy.

Thanks for this information @brunotreves
I'm working with a "ru" topics mostly. But hope my last post about steemit promotion, English one, will have some success...

Great info thank you.

I ranked #1 on comments per post 😂🙌🏼... yes, I'm Charles Fuchs. 💪🏼🙌🏼💯

Upvoted and RS'd

Thanks for sharing -- you def have the spirit!

Sweet! Thank you :)

So many tags still can't think of anything creative to say ...

Thanks for sharing though

You're probably interested in a Little bit of everything like me... this could be an asset ... just sayin..

Upvoted and followed! Another data buff! I like this a lot.

Would be interested to see the data controlled for the rep and relative SP of the authors.

For example, the tag #steem-pocalypse had 9 (now 10) posts.

Out of those 9, 5 posts were @papa-pepper's posts. @papa-pepper's rep and SP speaks for itself.

Out of the remaining 4 posts, the average $/post is about $4.67. Even in those 4 posts if you remove the 2 posts by @keepdoodling (a user with a 61 rep), the remaining $/post is $1.88.