🙈 Is Steemit For Marketers Or Should They Be Booted Out? 💲
Is Steemit For Marketers?
I been doing Internet Marketing for over 15 years. I done just about everything from producing my own software products, real mobile apps & games to video marketing and SEO. I just found out about Steemit from a fellow friend and knew I had to check Steemit out ASAP.
I know most online marketers are scumbags 🚾 ( well I feel that way ), they take something good and abuse the hell out of it. Not something I like seeing.
What I see right now, Steemit might be too complicated for some of these "marketers" , but some will try to game the system. Being this is my first post, I admit I have a lot to learn, but seeing Steemit in it's infancy now is the best time to watch it develop and see what these marketers do.
Think of Reddit, there are all kinds of tools now to automate Reddit marketing, most of the posts that are marketing very few pick up on the commercial intent of the post when properly done.
LinkedIn has been invaded by these so called marketers, we're not talking about head hunters looking for talents I have seen all kinds of trash 🚰 posted on LinkedIn, granted it normally doesn't last very long.
Link bombs are the online marketer's favorite, join and start throwing out links to all kinds of affiliate products. Since links are allowed on Steemit that's the first concern I see. Will certain domains/links be blocked in the future such as ClickBank, JVZoo to name a few or short links from bit.ly ?
I haven't tried posting any thing from these domains, perhaps they are already blocked?
I do think there are times when it's ok to share a link to a product, but for people to join just to push out spam and call it marketing is dead wrong in my opinion. Hell at least take the effort and make a blog and real articles on the product (offer value) then link to that.
I think Steemit should be based on valued content first and foremost, marketing if any should be secondary for the platform to have true value.
I like to hear what you think about marketing on Steemit, I think there is a lot of potential for both good and bad and how do we handle it?
I agree with you and most online marketers are scumbags. These are legit concerns. If they post spam it will all get downvoted and unseen. If the marketer persists their reputation score will go to zero and their posts probably wont appear at all. We are all moderators here
Thanks for bringing this up. Personally, I wouldn't vote for any post w a affiliate link in it, unless it's very informative or helpful. But most I see so far are crap, and am very tempted to downvote it. Same as you, I would like to see more opinions on this topic.
I'd like to see a limit on marketing links based either on a certain period of time (once a week or once a month) and/or based on the proportion of marketing posts relative to the user's quality content and community engagement.
I think charities and other useful social programs should be able to market more freely.
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