**4th Day support begginers' guide book **

A BEGGINERS’ ULTIMATE GUIDE TO STEEMIT BLOGGING. A STEP BY STEP GUIDE.

NB: all the funds raised will be for the production of the book in a way of promoting steemit and helping begginners easily make use of steemit.

Introduction
I have published this article as a way of promoting steemit. I have included hints for the steemit freshers on how to write attractive and engaging articles on steemit in order to prosper, get a following and earn some steem dollars on steemit through their blogs. Also there has been no sufficient guidelines on how to write quality work on steemit. Accordingly, this article benefits steemit article writers, news publishers and all kinds of persons engaged in steemit writing. I have a bigger write up of this article but I have summarised it below for easy reading at your own convenient pace. Am planning to publish it as a book to all steemians and the world at large in way of promoting steemit and also teaching those already on steemit on how to fully maximize steemit resources.

The coming of steemit which attached a monetary value to votes awarded onto authentic articles has put blogging on a rise.

Accordingly, competition amongst bloggers has also become steep. Originality of content posted on steemit has become the lifeblood of bloogers on steemit and the growth of steemit itself. Important to note is that you will never build a following if you lack originality and quality in the articles you blog on steemit.

Hint 1.
The advantage of blogging quality and well researched articles on steemit attracts you followers who in turn will up vote tour articles. Voting helps one to earn steem dollars and accordingly raise your steemit reputation.

BLOG BUILDING AND CONTENT STRATEGISING MECHANISMS.
a) Determine your blog objectives.
These in simple terms are goals that you aim at achieving.

• First and foremost, you should aim and gathering a following. Followers easily identify your article once you publish them on your blog. Getting followers stats from tou following other stemian.

Hint 2.

There is an ongoing campaign on steemit called follow for follow. Accordingly, you should follow other steemians inorder to be followed back.

• Promotion and fundraising. Some bloggers join steemit to get fundraising for charity and promotion of their brands. This not only gets them market but also earns the plenty of steem dollars.

Hint 3.

If you have company or organization, you could use steemit as a platform for the growth of your company or organization.

Ideally, you could use the various steemit discord platforms to promote your posts. In the same vain you can make use of bots that are available at steembot tracker website to upvote your articles. This not only brings you monetary profits but also increases your reputation on steemit.

• It should also be your objective to inspire people through steemit blogging. Food for thought: who would wish to follow someone who has nothing attractive about them.

Hint 4.

Being an inspiration to steemians starts on the quality of articles you blog. Inorder to attract the highest rated stemians (whales), you need to produce well researched quality content.

b) Identify your target steemit population target.

Before blogging an article, you should consider which category of steemians you are intending to address. This can clearly be seen by the tags you indicated on your article. Ensure that at least your friends, family, classmates, workmates and all your peers see you. These can offer you fresh ideas and also encourage you.

Hint 5.
Important to note is that the tag should match and be in line with the content in the article. In addition, endeavor to discover if the targeted population will be interested in your work and will appreciate it. This can be done by taking a leaf from other steemians’ work under the trending and hot button.

c) Develop a blog’s voice.

In developing a blog’s voice, I mean sticking to a particular theme. This promotes consistency of your articles so that your followers can easily follow and understand. Once your posts have consistency, this keeps you followers in need of more of your articles. This can be achieved by making contextually relevant posts.

Also you should have your own point of view. However, endeavor to stay objective in your writing in order to give chance to your followers to raise their opinions.

Hint 6.

Consistency can be attained by sticking to particular tags in your posts. The fruits of having a blog’s voice are undeniably evident from the type of following your article attracts.

However, endeavor to pick an appropriate tag for all your posts. The tag you decide to use should reflect on what you have written.

d) Make ample research and collect sufficient information before writing your article.

Research can be done in both online and offline libraries in your areas. Becoming a great blogger comes with a responsibility of presenting quality work. This can only be done by making thorough research. Also taking a leaf from other similar articles could act as a guide in making yours look so phenomenal.

After conducting sufficient research and paper work, the article should be precisely written. It should not be too wordy and their shallow in content. It should be useful and compelling to read. This helps to pull the attention of stemians to your blog and hence increased following.

Hint 7.
Well researched and organized content of an article attracts the attention of high reputation steemit whales. This can make you earn a lot more steem dollars from each article you blog on the steemit network.

Also you should have an attractive and a compelling title. This attracts followers. You should spend more than a minute creating an appropriate tile.

You should have a leading paragraph as well. This also compels readers to reader the article on sight.

e) Engagement and interaction.

Truth, steemit is an interaction social media platform. In order for steemians to follow and appreciate your work, you need to follow and comment back on their blog articles and posts. Failure to do so, your posts will be ignored as=there exists no mutual connection between you and the other steemians.

Hint 8.
Endeavor to comment back when your followers’ comments under your articles. This creates a special bond between them as you recognize their presence on steemit. Commenting and voting other steemians articles earns a cumulative steem power and dollars the end of seven days.

f) Avoid plagiarism.

Steemit regulations clearly stipulate that plagiarism is prohibited and was one posts plagiarized content, he or she faces sanctions. There is a steemit bot called cheetah which automatically detects plagiarized content on steemit.

Articles that lack originality create bias from your followers and the steemit family at large.this make your articles to be ignored by everyone hence you typical become invisible in the steemit world. Also concerned steemians may flag your content which puts your reputation at risk.

Hint 9.
When you use someone else’s material in your work, you should indicate the source of that information and who it belongs to. This is giving credit to the original owner of such information.

g) Promote you article.
Writing an article and blogging it is not enough, actually it is the beginning. Even well written and researched content can be ignored. In reality, only your followers will know blog an article unless you are listed under hot or trendy tabs.

Hint 10.

This lack of recognition is caused by the daily and increasing number of steemians and hence the steep competition. However, one’s post can be promoted by way of resteem from followers. Other steemians do invest in bots. This requires a monitory value to be bid for a boy and if done with care can be effective way to promote your post.

NEGATIVE COMMENT HANDLING FOR FRESHERS.

Being a fresher on steemit is a bit challenging as your blogged articles may face critism. It is obvious for freshers to be criticed by hostile steemians because some of them are naïve about the basics of blogging while others are in the learning process.

HINT 11.

Negative comments can be discouraging and vexatious. Hostile steemians aren’t new. However, you should be willing to accept their comments as a lessons for better future articles on your blog. Your approach to hostile steemians should be focusing on turning negative experience into positive one.

I have endeavored to simplify the the art of blogging for current and future freshers on steemit. Go ahead and create quality articles on your blogs to attract followers and also earn steem dollars. Once you perfectly follow this guideline, you will move mountains on steemit.

Am releasing a book based on this article in order to enable all people make good use of all the resources of steemit.

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