I'm also going to create a weekly competition for evergreen content. That is, every week I will send 100 LEO to the top ranking post in terms of external traffic that it generates.
First of all, this is indeed awesome. Like I have said before, optimized content is the most valuable thing for us due to the organic traffic it will generate, but optimized content is still being overlooked or often ignored by the curators. There are various reasons for this to happen, but to see something that is put in place to reward such content is amazing.
According to my understanding of the things you've said Khal, I would probably do things differently. 100 LEO for the top ranking post is totally fine, and even though there is only 1 winner with a prize like that, everyone will be real winners when things takes off.
I am a bit worried for different reasons: The first one is having only 1 prize. I don't mean that you have to have thousands of LEO in total, but I think it would be easier for people to create optimized content if they had "higher chances" of winning the prize, so to speak.
Perhaps extra rewards for the top 5 posts or so? That could potentially mean that the same author wins multiple prizes, but it would also increase the overall chance for people to win something.
Not sure how this would actually work out in reality, but what about 100% upvotes with leo.voter +curators pick on optimized content that has potential to generate traffic over time? - It would require some time reading and looking at things from an "optimized" perspective, to see if the content has potential or not.
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I'm also going to create a weekly competition for evergreen content. That is, every week I will send 100 LEO to the top ranking post in terms of external traffic that it generates.
You may notice that some of these posts are actually several months old. That means that authors could literally earn 100 LEO per week on old content that is ranking well.
While I truly love the idea, I shared my thoughts in a comment previously:
Rewarding the top article each week would basically be like giving one of the two authors LEO for several weeks or even months without much competition due to the current rankings.
However, you said "weekly competition for evergreen content" which could mean that this will be on-going for a long, long time. If you are willing to put in those extra LEO to reward content that pulls in the most organic traffic, and your intention is to do that for a long period of time, it would definitely inspire and encourage people to produce optimized content.
The top 2 authors would literally be handed hundreds if not thousands of LEOs for content they wrote a long time ago though, before other content could compete in terms of traffic.. But that would most certainly inspire people to make optimized content as they would see how easy it is to earn 100% passive LEO rewards for something they make once.
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