Promoted Posts Get Views
I had started developing promotions for the software underlying Proof of Brain.Blog about five weeks ago. And I am pleased to announce that promotions have been developed and are working live on the site now.
I conducted a poll about a month ago on how I should monetize Proof of Brain.Blog. I used the site dpoll.io for this purpose. I received 12 replies. Each reply can have more than one vote. Each user could vote for any of all of the options. I also received a whole lot of votes for it at the time as well.
I decided to promote my own poll. Two weeks had already passed so I wasn't going to get any more reward for this post, but I wanted to let everyone have a chance to answer the poll. So, after promoting my own post which directed people to the poll I was conducting on how to monetize, I got thirteen more replies for my poll. So there was double the engagement and activity than not having a promoted post. I also got ten more votes.
How Promotions Work
Somewhat subtly there is the word "Promoted" on the far right side of the post tile when looking at any list. Posts go into a kind of queue, and if you promote a post it will get there and stay there or advance in this queue as promotions expire.
In every list of posts, promoted posts get a spot of the 5th position, spot and then every fourth spot after that (9th, 13th, ...). Eventually the one at the 5th spot will expire its promotion. When this happens, if there is one in the 9th spot it moves to the 5th spot. The one in the 13th spot goes to the 9th spot and so on.
When you make a post, make sure your new content is for a specific community: the Proof of Brian community. Remember to put your tags that have to do with the subject matter and use images and write with the best quality. Once your post is posted, or once you see another user's post you want promoted, you can promote it with the following steps.
- I think you should reblog it if you want to promote it. You might as well, why not promote it for free first as well?
- After that, it may take some time before your post appears in created but when you find it, mouse over the three dots at the bottom of the post tile.
- A menu will appear and you can click on Promote. You will be given options to promote. You can promote for as long as two weeks and for as little as 30 minutes. You'll have to pay in Proof of Brain.
- Once promoted I promise to keep the post up within reason.
✗ I think eventually most of what I post will get me into trouble anyway but if you can see Yahweh turning you into salt for posting something, you probably shouldn't post it.. much less promote it and I would remove such a thing. So far zero posts have been removed from promotions.