In this post I asked people to guess on the price of BTC at 9:30 am New York Time on Black Friday with a price of 5 HSBI to the person the closest. And.... I had no takers. None of you like HSBI — or just no one actually read the post?
Lately my posts are getting about 50 views, with around 30 or those being unique. (You can see you posts stats on the Peakd Insights page). But that particular post got exactly 1 view. Only 1. I did get a few comments, so I will give people the benefit of doubt and assume they were using a browser (probably Brave) that blocks all trackers, so peakd wasn't able to register their view. I know I do this — taking care to block pretty much everything every site requests. So I understand others wanting to do the same.
Whatever the case may be, that's not unusual. Most Hive posts get very little actual traffic. You might be fooled by the high payout on some posts, but the majority of those votes on most people are autovotes. Again, Hive's audience does lean towards the more cautious libertarian attitude, so I'm sure that skews the stats down, but even so... they need to be much higher. How many hits does Medium get do you imagine? Do you think Hive gets even a fraction of that?
Which highlights one of the major problems we've always had. For whatever reason, few people who aren't already members here ever stumble onto these pages, and the people who are already members here are all more interested in writing their own content than in reading the content of others. The fact that most Hive users would rather be writing than reading
I don't know the solution here. We need to get Hive posts ranked higher on Google so we can actually attract people here. And we need to onboard people so we actually grow this place.
Oh well. Anyway, since I'm in a good mood, despite no one actually making the requested guess, I'm going to go ahead and send an HSBI to everyone who gave a comment. Here you go!
Have a good weekend, y'all!
I agree with what you mentioned about the low traffic that Hive and its Fronts currently have. Personally, I think this is due not only to the low user traffic on Hive, but also to the same Fronts such as PeakD, Ecency, InLeo and others that do not have any type of algorithm or function that helps the user to be able to see in their Feed the content that is of interest to them. We literally depend on what the users we follow post and what they sometimes reblog. Some even abuse reblogs and fill their blogs with posts from other accounts just to get followers or attention.
Personally, I admit that I have even muted accounts that abuse this tool because they filled my feed with posts that I am not interested in seeing. Currently, I follow and view posts with content that interests me or catches my attention (as is the case with this particular post that caught my attention because of the title, yes). Aside from that, we have comments and votes to get an idea of how much traffic our posts get. Well, votes also depend a lot on Trails and all that. I believe that only about 1% of our followers actually see our content, and that can be confirmed by the comments and interactions we receive.
I also wonder why they don't just index all the content/posts uploaded daily to Hive by Google to get more traffic. But I also remember that most posts don't meet some minimum requirements for better SEO, since some users barely use tags and others abuse them in one way or another. I'm not an SEO expert by any means, but I at least have a basic understanding of how to write articles, create catchy titles, and use appropriate tags to help the post get increased traffic. But even with all the knowledge and methods I've acquired thanks to my short experience creating written content online, I admit that it's very difficult to get any traffic on Hive.
As you yourself have said, most people come here to make posts and earn money before even reading or interacting. Currently, there are many creators and very few viewers. We need more audience, more viewers, more readers who see and interact with our content.
I apologize for going on at such length, but I wanted to share my opinion on this topic with you.
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The reality is that Hive would most likely not get more traffic even if it could get ranked in Google or other search engines. Very few are targeted to any specific audience or written for SEO. THere is even fewer articles that would be interesting to most outside of Hive.
In fact as you pointed out, most people on Hive don't even read what is posted, they just vote and move on. Those that do comment, are mostly transactional. They will only comment, if you comment on their post etc. Some don't even do that. The last couple points is why I have mostly stopped posting and wasting my time on Hive. There are a handful of people I enjoy interacting with, you included, but other than that, muh, just another crypto money making scheme to me.
Good morning, @dbooster.
I confess that lately I haven't had the discipline to read and comment on the publications I vote for. I vote conscientiously on each one, but then I don't give my time to contribute something to the discussion and to enrich the publication, as you say. Not for the rewards payment, because my vote is of low value.
I take responsibility for this issue that you raise here today. I hope that in the coming days I will be able to respond to the comments that have been made on my posts, which are not many, but they do exist. Thank you for reminding us that Hive is more than just posting and going offline...
I can say: "Shame on me... "LOL
Our entire oroblems come from bot pages, because their creation has been given the green light here for years, and each user can have hundreds of pages without them being real users. These pages are simply used for printing, which is why the Hive world has big problems + a big inflation . The only thing that will fix a lot of things is if these robotized pages are put to an end. New users are not stupid, they soon discover fast that they are posting and competing with bots who simply print their value out of the page. 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️
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Please rest assured, I’ve read this post today. Even though I don’t have time to leave a genuine comment on your topic. but I will give it some thought and might come back to it later ⛄️
Guilty a.f. I do love reading when I have time, but it's usually my urge to express myself that keeps me here. Still, the global community here had inspired me, and I've made more connections here than real life, so there's that.
I mean you never comment on my posts, so there's also that. Maybe I should offer something better 😁😜
It's always been a funny one on Hive. We know we have a duty to comment to keep things alive, but when we get crickets, we can't be bothered reciprocating... Crickets?