How to promote your content on Ecency and why?

in Ecency3 years ago

Do you know you can promote your content basically for free and drive more engagement into your posts and blog?

And it won't just have temporary effects, it will have long lasting effects on your content and community.
In this post we will briefly talk about neat feature we have had for over a year and how promotion system is working.

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When using Ecency.com or Ecency mobile app, users are earning/minting Ecency Points (ECEN) for every action (no matter their stake), voting, comment, posting, reblog, check-ins, delegation, etc.

These Ecency points soon will have ECEN token equivalent where you can swap back and forth, trade agains HIVE and other tokens. One of the use cases of Ecency Points, is to promote your content for any length you desire.

When promoting content, Ecency Points are sent back to reward pool. Promoted content is shuffled across the feeds.

Idea is to give content most visibility, which we think it is achieving that and with good title, thumbnail and quality article, you will likely draw much more eyeballs to your work.

What most doesn't realize is that, those content gets found by Google and other search engines much faster too. So you potentially get more visibility because your content and work is indexed by Google and other search engines. Thus will drive more traffic to your work in long term.

Why or how it gets indexed faster?

You see, Google or any search engine crawler starts indexing periodically from certain entry point, in our case let's say from home page. And crawler starts to visit every link page has and expands from there. As described above, your promoted post is randomized across the feeds, so that content is indexed much faster even if your content doesn't necessarily trend or get into hot topics section.

How to promote content?

In https://ecency.com and Ecency mobile, desktop apps you will find Points page where all recent points activities are located, click on arrow next to your Points balance and select Promote.

You will see following wizard, where you can start typing your username and you will get your recent posts as options or you can simply copy paste your post in username/permlink format.

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Select duration - 1, 2, 3, 7, 14 days and click Next to sign the transaction with Keychain or Hivesigner.

That's it! Try it out...


We are brainstorming promote 2.0, that will benefit communities even more! We will write separate post when we have proof of concept ready.

With Ecency, the more you use the more exposure you get and more you earn!


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Do we need to post, the posts we are going to promote, via ecency? or A posted content through any interface, e.g. peakd or hive dot bog can be promoted?

Thanks.

Right now you have to post it through Ecency. Not sure what they plan on doing in the future.
But it would be neat if a "partnership" between a few tribes or Peakd can be made where the Ecency points could be used

I see. Thanks for the clarification.

I am wondering. If ECEN is turned into a token and gain popularity, isn't a good idea to hold them, instead of using them for promoting contents!

I am thinking the same. So yes might be.
But hopefully its dymnamic.
So if the price for 1 Ecency token is 0.5 Hive, then we should be able to promote our content with 1 Ecency and getting an upvote equal to 0.5 Hive.
So dno, it depends on how the math works :D

ECEN will have more and more use cases. If you engage more you earn more, no matter stake. Of course one of the uses cases we are considering ECEN stake based gamification as well, but ECEN stake won't be locked, only 1 token, read here our view on this matter.

Okay cool. Thanks for the answer!

Maybe it should be updated to Hive instead :p

With Hive it is already possible to promote posts and see them in Promoted section, but the way it works is different than how we designed this promoting feature.

I wouldn't know. I only use your app on mobile. Best app out there for that :D

To promote, you can post from any interface. To earn points it should be posted from Ecency.

Nice post preview picture ;)

As usual your awesome work is our face 🤗

Thank you for making this feature available for bloggers on the Ecency.
Peace

@ecency, Keep up with this Free Boost and Visibility Service. Waiting for the Ecency Gamification World. Stay blessed.

Good news! I’m waiting for ECEN token

I never had an idea on how to use points till this. Thank you