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RE: 🔍 My Steemit.com SEO Experiment
Have you looked at the head entries on the Steemit.com site:
If it is forbidden to index the page, it cannot be found in the search index.
The only question is: Why does the Inc. do this? Unfortunately, I haven't yet found the place in the code on github to find out when this was inserted.
Oh wow - great observation and it hadn't crossed my mind that there'd be such madness in the template! It must have been a parting gift from the lot who created HIVE.
I was aware (or became aware) that there's a $10 minimum value before "nofollow" become "follow" links in a post (to prevent people from using Steemit's domain ranking to spam backlinks) but this is everywhere, irrespective of a post's value. Wow. I've DM'd steemchiller to see what he knows about it.
Wow.
Just wow.
I wonder how long that's been there for.
I'll ask the Steemit developer that I know too.
I think so. There is no line in the code where these tags are inserted.
In https://github.com/steemit/condenser/blob/master/src/server/server-html.jsx is defined the html-frame.
That's where most of the meta-tags are defined.
Up to line 221, everything is the same as in the delivered page. After that, no more meta-tags are defined in the (visible) code. In the delivered page, however, there are the two lines shown above.
It is also strange that the entries have no "data-reactid"...
I've just had a look at the page source again and the 2 "nofollow, noindex, etc." lines have gone - do see them any more?
It's possible that it's been fixed already!
I don't see that any more.
I'm surprised it happened so quickly. But I would be interested to know how the entries came about and who changed them so quickly.
At least you can repeat your experiment in a few days.
I'll ask - it won't be a coincidence that it was highlighted and quickly fixed. It would also be interesting to know how long that code had been there, Steemit.com's ranking has fallen sharply in the last month and this has almost certainly contributed to it!
I suspect that my experiment has been ruined! But in doing it and following up on a few things, I did learn quite a lot about how some bits of Steemit work which will warrant a follow-up post at some point (obviously referencing your great find!)
I look forward to reading more about your learnings :-)