There are game changers and then there are game changers.
Imagine this....
One could keep doing what they normally do yet simultanously be on the STEEM blockchain. Plus, by having this happen, STEEM would have the potential for 75M+ accounts.
Do you think this would be a good thing? This is exactly what we might see happen.
We all know Steemit, as much as people try to position it otherwise, is basically a blogger site at the present time. This is what it offers to people. That said, there are a lot of blogs out there. One of them, Wordpress, has over 75M sites. To me, this is a nice target to get after.
I know what you are thinking. Wordpress is mostly blogs of people talking about their flower arranging or their homesteading. One of the nice things about Wordpress is that anyone can set up a blog and be going in a few minutes. However, one of the negatives is that few make any money off it.
Before we get into the juicy stuff, let us look at what Wordpress is.
I am using stats that are a couple of years old from the managewp website and a site called expandedramblings.com that posted some WP data. These are their numbers which I was not able to verify.
Contrary to what one might think, Wordpress is not just used by individuals. There are some pretty big users on there.
Here are a few stats:
Websites using Wordpress: 75M
Wordpress % of Global Content Market: 60.2%
% of all websites that use Wordpress: 27.5%
Monthly pages on Wordpress blogs: 23.1B
For full stats.... https://expandedramblings.com/index.php/wordpress-statistics/
According to managewp, here are a few sites that are Wordpress:
- New York Times
- Wall Street Journal Speakeasy
- People Magazine
- National Geographic
- Forbes
https://managewp.com/blog/statistics-about-wordpress-usage
I never would have guessed.
Okay great. Wordpress is huge. What does that have to do with STEEM?
Here is where it gets really interesting. I have to say I watched this project for a while and then lost track of it. Yesterday I caught a vlog by @exyle which reminded me of it. They participated in the London Cryptocurrency Show over the weekend. To me, this development could be really huge for STEEM.
Let me introduce you to Steempress.
SteemPress is a wordpress plugin to allow you to automatically publish your articles on the STEEM blockchain whenever you publish them on your blog.
Doesn't that get the juices flowing?
Steempress is a plugin that can link 75M+ blogs to the STEEM blockchain. Every post made on those blogs will instantly be posted on their Steemit account allowing them to monetize the content without having to create another post. Talk about a no brainer.
Here is another great aspect to this plugin....It is already available on the Wordpress site.
Thus far, over 400 people have installed it...
Plugin featured at the London CryptoCurrency Show in april 2018.
features :
- Automatic posting of your article
- Conversion and cleanup of the text to make look good on steem.
- Optional self vote
- Add an original link to your blog
- Custom tags for each article
- Default tags if no tags are defined for an article.
- Optional posting
- Bulk posting
- Delayed posting to protect your SEO
Like most other apps on STEEM, including esteem, dtube, dsound, dmania, utopian and zappl to name a few, we intend to use benefactor rewards to help run SteemPress. The benefactor rewards is currently set to 10%. In comparison, Dtube and Utopian both take 25% benefactor rewards while Zappl takes 15%.
We (fredrikaa and howo) are determined to do our best to keep this percentage low in order to incentivise more use. Discussions on the use of benefactor rewards, and what rates they should be, are of course welcomed.to do our best to keep this percentage low in order to incentivise more use. Discussions on the use of benefactor rewards, and what rates they should be, are of course welcomed.
https://wordpress.org/plugins/steempress/#description
Does this plug in mean the NYTimes is suddenly going to start posting on here? Not likely. However, when you are dealing with a pool of that is 75M+ sites, there is a chance that more than a handful will opt to use this plug in.
Now I do not have a Wordpress site so I cannot test it out. If anyone reading this does, please give it a try and let us know how it works.
This is just another instance of a development that potentially attract millions of people to the STEEM blockchain. Simple logic tells me that anyone with a Wordpress blog, why wouldn't they want to duplicate their exposure by also posting on STEEM, especially since it appears there is no additional work on their part? The plug in handles all the posting on this blockchain. Write once, post twice.
Another advantage to the blogger, even if there isn't a lot in monetization, Steemit is growing in terms of the rankings in Google. I wrote about this a couple months ago. As more content is created on this blockchain, the Google spider will find a bigger animal each time it goes through. This helps with the rankings which drives organic traffic, not only to Steemit but also the author. For those who are not the NYTimes or Forbes Magazine, posting on a highly ranked website could help considerably.
As I keep saying, each day provides something new on the blockchain. Development is occurring at a rapid pace. With all that is happening, those with even a few hundred SP are going to be very happy in a year or two.
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