As a marketing consulting, I always advice clients to niche themselves in market segments that are to their advantage, so they can have the edge over the competition. I started realising that a big part of being successful at Steemit is in the choice of tags I used, so I started compiling a simple excel sheet daily to tabulate the tags with the highest profitability - high payouts, low competition.

Kinda like SEOs' "high searches, low bids".

Hopefully, it can help you tag your Steemit posts effectively, and even help you identify profitable topics that you can write on. Stay awesome!

*If you need some quick tips on how to implement the info here, or why is it important, scroll till you reach the end of the table.

Tag	Profitability	Comments	Posts	Payouts
charlesfuchs	432.687675	23711	114	49,326
witness-category	398.485548	25277	573	228,332
bitshares	188.65589	38945	3,119	588,418
meetup	125.925439	19164	1,597	201,103
kr-art	117.664252	34276	1,143	134,490
curation	117.145874	31981	4,553	533,365
muksteem	107.983795	55564	1,427	154,093
utopian-io	104.904087	193372	14,309	1,501,073
kr-travel	91.4225656	23039	1,029	94,074
coinkorea	84.3207173	64802	5,979	504,154
adsactly	83.1169176	14893	5,317	441,933
steemsilvergold	82.1119458	101022	2,179	178,922
anarchy	80.1336511	16984	6,256	501,316
anarchy	75.3651341	901045	24,673	1,859,484
minnowsupportproject	70.8234912	22217	1,539	108,997
teamaustralia	68.5953233	16130	4,200	288,100
thealliance	68.1750279	18891	4,047	275,904
openmic	68.1585924	90788	3,270	222,879
steemfest	65.6004809	26437	3,165	207,626
kr-event	61.8995553	47299	1,970	121,942
steemstem	59.5968117	39024	9,488	565,455
kr-writing	58.870163	20297	4,443	261,560
ita	55.2564914	49607	5,954	328,997
steemitworldmap	53.4885778	17503	225	12,035
eos	52.6508845	34500	6,024	317,169
community	50.8836264	36601	18,205	926,336
kr-join	48.5786142	20010	985	47,850
jjangjjangman	48.1795285	19783	9,826	473,412
cn	46.6336327	235542	36,955	1,723,346
kr	45.086724	1786543	64,910	2,926,579
minnowbooster	45.051791	25509	1,043	46,989
psychology	43.8057702	30922	13,436	588,574
crypto-news	43.7182268	23617	11,264	492,442
vlog	43.2527758	20254	10,158	439,362
fiction	42.1550328	46141	16,539	697,202
treetuesday	41.6558597	19088	734	30,575
howto	41.5125835	14263	6,951	288,554
minnowsupport	38.4655871	28910	6,120	235,409
gardening	38.2097696	32640	6,349	242,594
norway	36.390059	31780	5,050	183,770
freedom	35.1060936	26524	17,409	611,162
homesteading	34.8471042	66151	7,282	253,757
steemiteducation	33.595113	47976	10,599	356,075
giveaway	33.3857758	37550	5,166	172,471
contest	33.3052456	271124	37,638	1,253,543
kr-newbie	32.0641801	81219	19,198	615,568
tutorial	30.8355656	10092	10,701	329,971
introducemyself	29.704177	77326	6,213	184,552
teammalaysia	29.3666798	34764	7,182	210,911
steem	29.0278244	383287	178,339	5,176,793
philosophy	28.9987667	51765	27,286	791,260
creativity	28.702356	9515	20,796	596,894
persian	28.4743689	16915	1,724	49,090
introduction	26.9261296	30400	6,203	167,023
kr-gazua	26.7537367	66302	1,466	39,221
vegan	26.0512369	15465	4,440	115,667
steemitphotochallenge	25.2908578	31333	5,090	128,730
writing	24.7475106	144706	123,845	3,064,855
design	24.7322206	11932	16,423	406,177
support	24.6280937	44995	2,466	60,733
fr	24.0279874	40523	8,040	193,185
help	23.7033145	11084	7,789	184,625
japanese	23.3659792	111771	8,795	205,504
challenge	22.8277366	9162	8,865	202,368
dsound	22.6978462	79190	19,341	438,999
cannabis	22.5293794	31529	5,748	129,499
science	22.3312543	83514	52,334	1,168,684
deutsch	22.143784	150331	29,309	649,012
steemit-health	21.9394592	66260	1,531	33,589
conspiracy	21.7158117	10089	7,610	165,257
pt	20.6894411	35733	5,833	120,682
cointurk	20.3818137	12837	4,875	99,361
christmas	20.3314479	15430	6,466	131,463
education	20.2980974	29981	31,445	638,274
travel	20.2929002	556066	194,011	3,937,046
photofeed	20.0454483	54072	18,104	362,903
promo-steem	19.9721909	58163	16,704	333,615
review	19.9238616	8938	15,591	310,633
dlive	19.6995619	301506	48,022	946,012
drawing	18.8627487	50280	37,896	714,823
family	18.728185	21331	24,250	454,158
painting	18.318269	11258	18,921	346,600
cityscapephotography	18.1997016	16904	2,611	47,519
adventure	18.0948953	16279	20,155	364,703
india	18.0652713	14048	23,321	421,300
africa	18.0038318	7272	13,960	251,333
business	17.9786167	20167	24,900	447,668
investing	17.9086757	9438	16,480	295,135
landscapephotography	17.5400578	42289	9,227	161,842
steemit	17.3061773	1050325	489,338	8,468,570
whalepower	16.9749871	18318	21,242	360,583
trading	16.9081813	23898	34,876	589,690
blog	16.8873252	203567	326,120	5,507,294
creative	16.8685726	6631	16,343	275,683
cats	16.6759253	15922	5,619	93,702
recipe	16.5646696	13505	19,530	323,508
foodphotography	16.4421801	32298	8,572	140,942
food	16.0360686	460984	146,977	2,356,933
money	15.9543774	128140	142,710	2,276,849
blockchain	15.7559849	61841	133,609	2,105,141
tr	15.6698631	90156	25,371	397,560
myanmar	15.5956685	148985	7,452	116,219
ru	15.4493771	14630	12,173	188,065
freewrite	15.0541955	39196	2,358	35,498
health	14.9755856	135805	85,889	1,286,238
story	14.8374987	128717	181,087	2,686,878
gaming	14.6480489	87221	58,225	852,883
animalphotography	14.6241528	44311	8,024	117,344
busy	14.6208614	219056	229,956	3,362,155
dlive-broadcast	14.5838396	2715	41,839	610,173
fitness	14.4587395	16872	12,255	177,192
architecturalphotography	14.4069485	21446	3,787	54,559
art	14.1632234	639198	280,888	3,978,279
introduce	14.0882521	15990	4,903	69,075
goldenhourphotography	14.0466198	32521	4,455	62,578
cooking	14.0452015	7210	12,863	180,663
success	13.9611362	8853	13,756	192,049
technology	13.938635	66644	70,223	978,813
thai	13.8941493	49498	5,204	72,305
history	13.8214887	43738	43,419	600,115
culture	13.6674072	18938	19,685	269,043
sports	13.6305778	76226	43,154	588,214
bwphotocontest	13.5350036	35513	4,692	63,506
steemgigs	13.4960397	17752	8,187	110,492
colourfulphotography	13.4199932	23868	5,866	78,722
nigeria	13.122888	18501	52,349	686,970
music	13.0286853	152658	115,975	1,511,002
macrophotography	12.8887716	30351	8,397	108,227
cars	12.7409526	23181	10,292	131,130
game	12.7314216	14436	39,976	508,951
portraitphotography	12.6821855	15557	5,041	63,931
freesteem	12.6295183	20331	1,555	19,639
artzone	12.5633895	12125	15,570	195,612
politics	12.5414238	53348	64,077	803,617
philippines	12.4769494	39098	51,748	645,657
coffee	12.4027335	12007	7,369	91,396
life	12.3343649	1022872	1,009,478	12,451,270
dice	12.3078976	19702	166	2,043
vehiclephotography	12.2889362	16227	3,166	38,907
cryptocurrency	12.2223423	375226	323,256	3,950,945
spirituality	12.0344657	14416	13,394	161,190
cervantes	11.9378199	67524	51,187	611,061
streetphotography	11.8811419	24963	6,383	75,837
polish	11.7658708	59690	9,299	109,411
steemph	11.6986099	9900	20,817	243,530
resteem	11.5471397	22254	2,512	29,006
games	11.527252	10525	21,821	251,536
animals	11.5022644	44371	36,548	420,385
advice	11.3850073	13394	5,326	60,637
poetry	11.2311544	164998	65,585	736,595
dtube	11.2229835	197481	159,029	1,784,780
movies	11.0624939	13462	13,199	146,014
film	11.0098465	10593	15,327	168,748
lifestyle	10.9231917	8506	25,289	276,237
photography	10.9044612	1329887	683,560	7,453,853
ethereum	10.7201945	37781	59,191	634,539
monomad	10.6888047	22991	3,502	37,432
motivation	10.236447	53469	45,834	469,177
investment	10.235777	4256	15,926	163,015
flowers	10.0638282	18060	22,426	225,691
bitcoin	10.040726	582085	351,003	3,524,325
sevendaybnwchallenge	9.69086332	65723	15,518	150,383
teardrops	9.5509026	12676	4,969	47,458
spanish	9.53250569	672004	126,618	1,206,987
inspiration	9.49027271	16201	28,866	273,946
castellano	9.36585226	22972	14,979	140,291
christian-trail	9.32467979	26313	15,006	139,926
stach	9.26116995	10316	28,055	259,822
poem	9.1409298	19120	22,150	202,472
fashion	9.07427173	9216	11,460	103,991
walkwithme	8.91405316	26505	3,875	34,542
photos	8.50955775	5412	12,025	102,327
nature	8.46724774	167326	257,383	2,179,326
untalented	8.41910642	20743	17,496	147,301
movie	8.40631941	18793	20,654	173,624
smartphonephotography	8.24807237	44345	24,747	204,115
news	8.11296394	177856	267,775	2,172,449
mining	7.87257999	9190	14,745	116,081
colorchallenge	7.8509358	262537	58,587	459,963
wafrica	7.76443732	3577	13,713	106,474
video	7.38736028	48250	152,482	1,126,439
upvote	7.34738665	9816	11,972	87,963
fun	7.28205065	27725	90,496	658,996
religion	7.22222329	40229	25,088	181,191
crypto	7.17344799	80255	188,744	1,353,945
trump	7.1518267	6581	13,699	97,973
humor	7.15053537	8698	34,464	246,436
comedy	7.00714893	5655	17,498	122,611
steem-network	6.9912623	28204	61	426
memechallenge	6.98725221	21682	7,902	55,213
steemchurch	6.94687014	41549	14,824	102,980
beauty	6.93512807	10699	35,722	247,737
people	6.71313911	4084	16,426	110,270
litecoin	6.5832275	11733	14,057	92,540
love	6.56290047	65709	131,183	860,941
altcoin	6.43955336	4396	18,319	117,966
christianity	6.40481288	27180	24,931	159,678
football	6.18110551	17845	29,438	181,959
funny	6.08413659	196878	311,362	1,894,369
sunset	6.03489668	8300	11,305	68,225
cryptocurrencies	5.93474407	8376	16,313	96,813
bescouted	5.88922753	33502	10,390	61,189
anime	5.75986184	8862	11,045	63,618
english	5.63395355	6501	13,283	74,836
market	5.38526342	6102	33,160	178,575
dog	5.36727919	20201	10,072	54,059
photo	5.17141522	57545	163,869	847,435
youtube	5.08649329	14016	44,536	226,532
happy	5.0361893	5530	12,985	65,395
cat	4.93742366	21007	12,961	63,994
celestialchallenge	4.70279413	11678	6,266	29,468
venezuela	4.64076486	19057	27,686	128,484
sex	4.63363444	4337	13,448	62,313
ripple	4.58821553	8454	13,381	61,395
nsfw	4.38085917	30704	31,869	139,614
steepshot	4.32075901	48138	91,600	395,782
live	4.21413312	4475	14,769	62,239
ksi	4.15279468	6855	18,284	75,930
flower	3.95277819	21099	37,248	147,233
free	3.92867295	12996	16,444	64,603
animal	3.82513758	22934	40,894	156,425
indonesia	3.77766599	230288	160,739	607,218
btc	3.52362427	10354	36,398	128,253
sport	3.50625654	16313	54,389	190,702
meme	3.39331456	47665	208,256	706,678
ico	3.32403081	27281	67,143	223,185
entertainment	3.19631283	12478	97,077	310,288
dmania	2.94153109	207052	133,081	391,462
quotes	2.90860027	5884	16,311	47,442
picture	2.88085452	3746	21,040	60,613
quote	2.86862302	12635	22,468	64,452
beautiful	2.8078502	6196	23,057	64,741
esteem	2.45992043	115380	217,235	534,381
amazing	2.40785037	7093	20,223	48,694
steempress	2.37866435	4405	13,508	32,131
test	2.37247968	22940	6,473	15,357
world	2.27996406	7611	51,227	116,796
aceh	2.04535443	68299	141,869	290,172
trending	2.04484642	4860	26,266	53,710
jokes	2.01849135	6087	20,869	42,124
natural	1.97508719	10069	30,578	60,394
zappl	1.94405944	175464	55,013	106,949
airdrop	1.79428571	5519	15,176	27,230
sexy	1.67885857	4298	18,002	30,223
good-karma	1.61901035	4361	18,746	30,350
post	1.42684335	2786	25,004	35,677
new	1.39416976	22728	137,946	192,320
hot	1.17661751	3818	21,781	25,628
tag1	0.36024691	32462	243	88

**Those in bold & italics are tags with high engagement (high number of comments).

How to make these numbers work for you?

1. If you look at the tags with the highest payouts, they usually have highest number of posts too. The analogy is this: imagine a huge pond with tons of people in it. It's crowded, and it's not gonna be an enjoyable swim. Imagine looking further down the road, and you see another pond, much smaller, but with only a handful of people. Ahhhh…. Heavenly instagramer (sorry, Steepshot-er) moment!

2. So one way of leveraging on this table of info, is after you've done drafting your content and about to post it, identify a few tags with good profitability.

   Please make sure the tags make sense though! It's pointless to insert a profitable tag but your content have nothing to do with it. You'd pissed your readers off!

3. Another way you can use this info, is to identify high profitable tags, and produce contents around them.

4. You may also want to take note of the number of comments, because it tells you what kind of contents get more engagement.

5. Do take note not all tags can be used, no matter how profitable they are. Some tags are for private groups or communities. Always do a research on them before using.

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Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. I mostly blog about Steemit Success Strategies, business, marketing, entrepreneurship, psychology, community and random thoughts.

Talking about Steemit Success Strategies, if you want to 10x your results on this platform, perhaps some of these guides will be able to help you.

1. How to generate at least 365 post ideas for your Steemit Life (and possibly never run out of ideas again!)
2. The 4 Big Cs of Steemit Success
3. 8 Content Strategies to Excite & Engage your Steemit Followers
4. 29 Steemit Post Types to Attract More Followers & Boost Your Popularity (Part 1)
5. 29 Steemit Post Types to Attract More Followers & Boost Your Popularity (Part 2)
6. Copywriting Magic for Steemit: "How To" Post Titles
7. Copywriting Magic for Steemit: "List Type" Post Titles
8. Steemit Success Strategies #1 - The Law of Requisite Variety
9. Steemit Success Strategies #2 - Batching + Parkinson's Law
10. Four + Four Free Tools to get more exposure for your Steemit Projects
11. How to apply the 80/20 rule to your Steemit Life
12. Steemit Experiment Report: 21 days, 21 minutes, 21 posts later, PLUS an 8-Step Guide on How to Write a Steemit Post every day under 30 minutes
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1. Steemit Bootcamp March 2018 - KICKSTART Your Steemit Success
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Wait, why's Mav posting on Steemit nowadays?

Well, unlike other blogging and social media platform, Steemit is the only platform that allows me to earn cryptocurrency when I engage with it. Yup, one Steem is about USD5, and you, too, can earn Steem Dollars every time you:

• Create content (articles, blog posts, podcasts, videos, photos)
• Upvote (like) other people contents
• Comment on other people's posts
• Have discussions, share opinions etc!

Yup, basically it's the very same thing you're doing on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc all along!

The only difference? For once you can earn a nice income on the side!

Sign up for a free Steemit account, and you can thank me by coming back and upvoting this article. And guess what, you will earn Steem too for doing that! #awesome