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Good morning guys, this is @bait002 the founder of the offline minnow school where minnows are mentored and groomed. Today, I will be talking about tag abuse and how to avoid them. This will be narrowed down on the promo-steem tag. At the end of the video, I will be dropping a video tutorial I made some few months ago on how to use tags and where to find suiting tags for your posts.

Tags are fundamental and is a great determinant of who sees your post especially for those who are not following you. When someone follows you on steemit, your post will begin to appear under their feed and each time they refresh that, they'll see your posts in the order of timing. Conversely, for those who don't follow you, there's no place for you to make your post visible to them than to use the tags (categories) that they are interested in. In one word;

under a tag is the best place to find you...

Tags are meant to be specific and related. That means, you have to use a tag that's inline with the content of tags. In a future post, I will be talking about types of tags and what some of them are meant for. Lastly, I will talk about some defects with the use of tags and possible solutions to these defects.

Briefly, let me talk about the promo-steem tag since I have been faced with some challenges while curating as an ambassador in terms of filtering posts that are becoming borderline spammy. The promo-steem tag is basically for contents that is encouraging a global STEEM (steemit) adoption. Such activities include;

• actively promoting steemit with evidence.
• encouraging users on the platform
• bringing investors with evidence

Those are a few, in a future post I will talk about more categories especially, those posts that are not promo-steem related. This is because, very soon drastic measures will be taken against spammers who use promo-steem. So, I think it is thoughtful to do a post educating minnows especially. Besides, so do use promo-steem with no intention to spam but instead, because they don't know what tags are all about. Honesty, I was also confused when I started. I would call @kesolink and ask;

"... my post is about... so what tags should I use?"

Very funny, but the point is, it also happened to me. So, know that I have been there before. Spend some time and watch the video below and feel free to ask questions or add contribution in the comment box to further enlighten the following reader.

watch a video about tags and their uses;

That's all for today guys. Thank you for stopping by today. Your interest in this article is truly appreciated.

For those who seek to know what this project is all about, you can read that below;

PHASE 1:

We in this phase train some minnows at our offline hub to help become self-sustained. These minnows will then work with us on our promo endeavours, while reproducing other minnows. Currently, we just wrapped up with phase 1. And phase 2, which is more demanding has already started.

PHASE 2:

This basically is the core of the vision and where the absolute idea lies and it goes as follows;
• SKILL ACQUISITION PROJECTS: where various skills and vocations will be taught to foster emergence of new entrepreneurs that thrive on voluntarism.

• THE MINNOW SCHOOL TALENT HUNT: we seriously hope to give minnows who are not really gifted writers but have other gifts such as singing, painting, dancing, acting a platform to express themselves and get their creativity beyond their minds. Basically, we are giving these young people a voice and ultimately awaken the writer in them.

• THE MINNOW SCHOOL ART/MUSIC EXHIBITIONS: here talented young people will get to showcase their talents and the value they have to offer to the community. We will be sponsoring then through art projects and professional music careers will emerge with this.

an offline open-mic session;

@meemee doing what she does best
Source; is from one of her (@meemee) steemit posts.

Thank you very much guys for reading. It's been a huge pleasure serving you through this means . I also hope that you make an unwavering commitment as response to the content of this article and build the best version of your blog.

know this and always remember that your blog today is not all that there is to obtain...

I am @bait002 and I am a lover of steemit.