Steemit now there are more than 350,000 users, and Alexa on the global ranking of more than two thousand sites, visitors from many countries, the United States, South Korea, Britain, Japan, Germany-based, visible traffic is really large, Behind it means people, borrow a word: "There will be rivers and lakes where the place", and advertising is pushing hands, from Steemit itself, advertising will increase the source of funds.
I have also mentioned that Steemit to achieve the creation of value, display advertising is a relatively simple and crude means. After all, Google and Facebook, Twitter these sites are currently the main profit way through advertising. So, if Steemit really show ads, how much income?*
Advertising revenue mainly comes from traffic, that is, the amount of visits to the site. Through some third-party sites can estimate traffic, such as hypestat.com, through it to estimate my personal website to get traffic as follows:
equalanzi.com received about 4,650 unique visitors and 7,905 (1.70 per visitor) page views per day which should earn about $ 24.08 / day from advertising revenue. Estimated site value is $ 13,433.19. According to Alexa Traffic Rank tumutanzi.com is ranked number 95,123 in the world and 0.00093% of global Internet users visit it.
Data from Google Analytics, @ tumutanzi's personal website, the actual number of page views per day is about 2000. The hypestat statistics are about four times the actual data. You can see, hypestat calculation theory is based on Alexa ranking, because my site ranking only about 10 million, so the calculation error will be relatively large: the estimated higher than the actual value, but whatever the outcome in an order of magnitude, basic Kaopu.
Considering that Steemit's ranking is around 2100, the estimated traffic with hypestat through Alexa will be more accurate. The following is a hypestat estimate of Steemit's access data:
steemit.com receives about 176,000 unique visitors and 867,680 (4.93 per visitor) page views per day which should earn about $4,520.50/day from advertising revenue. Estimated site value is $2,568,460.69. According to Alexa Traffic Rank steemit.com is ranked number 2,130 in the world and 0.0352% of global Internet users visit it.
800 million page visits per day, display advertising can generate $ 4520 per day revenue. Even if Google AdSense impressions are priced at $ 5 per thousand pages, 860,000 page visits can only generate $ 4300 per day, and $ 4520. According to the current flow, 365 days a year Steemit can generate advertising revenue of $ 1.65 million!
How many more? If all gave me that much more. But taking into account the current total market capitalization of about 200 million US dollars, 1.65 million is really nothing, such as camel back a small ants, this value is not even as our whale 
Perhaps you will say that the future increase in the number of users, advertising revenue will be more, but according to the current number of 350,000 registered users, 1.65 million US dollars a year of advertising value, equivalent to each user a year to produce 5 dollars worth! Advertising on Steemit will be a naked failure case.
So, whether it is present or in the future, advertising on Steemit is not a good way to create value. So Steemit now does not show advertising at all. Not only that, the largest advertising company Google on its home page on Google.com disdain to show ads, poor dead jars also long ago to give up the display ads, Steemit can not even the feelings of the soil jar and eyes are not right The
Do not worry, Steem is still far from the time to consider the realization of the time, Facebook is still in the profit before the money, the future there will be future innovation. If you still have to ask the question, I mentioned in the previous review of Steem SMTs article, Steem can stimulate the content creation process itself to create value, as if to a good system and a good leadership, making the production Efficiency is improved, the leadership will naturally get paid returns because it creates value.
Obviously, I am an optimist on the future.
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