From what I have observed so far, it seems Tagging plays a major role in content navigation and distribution on Steemit.
Tags are essential for effective Steeming i.e to Submit a Story at Steemit, there are only 3 elements - Title, body and the Tag. Clearly, effective use of tags is vital. I see most of the popular posts always carry fewer and only relevant tags. While most steemers already make a great use of tags there is still many who don't.
So as to spread more awareness about tags, I am sharing this basic tag performance chart in simple way.
Here's a view of today's top payout trending tags and replies
Highest payouts to date are against tag STEEMIT with highest number of replies, followed by INTRODUCEYOURSELF.
Interesting to note that ANARCHY and ANARCHISM both clubbed together are at no. 10 only next to 8 and 9 - MARIJUANA and WRITING.
The Payout per reply presents a relatively different picture, TETHER is at top with just 4 replies on single post here - https://steemit.com/trending/tether. Again, ANARCHY and ANARCHISM are at top in payout per reply - that's a good news for ANARCHISTS of the 'crypto-internet age' (coined by anonymous, right now).
# Notes
Please note this is just a general presentation of trending tags. On the day of posting, data is taken from https://steemit.com/tags.html/trending.
As the trending tags data is constantly changing, the numbers shown here might have changed by now. Primary objective of this post is to spread awareness about effective use of tags.