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RE: 🔍 My Steemit.com SEO Experiment
Interesting experiment.
I haven't thought about SEO on Steemit for a long time.
If I recall in the past the Steemit posts used to pop up on the search engines much more regularly, but how well they fared in the search engines was related to the amount of voting they caught.
I very, very vaguely remember someone writing an explanation of this - but the details are lost in the deep recesses of my mind, so it might be a mismemory.
I wonder if the number of internal (and external) links to an article has any significant impact?
Interesting sidepoint.
I just tried a search for 'World of Xpilar' on Ecosia and got back a load of links on Pinterest, Twitter, Publish0x etc - but none from steemit.com !
Not sure what that tells us.
I'll see if I can find any old articles that might be of interest. There are a few other comparisons that I'm interested in too - I'll keep you posted 🙂
Inbound links definitely help, provided they're also from reputable sources. I think it's something that Google give a lot more importance to now because it's something that is so much harder to cheat at!
In the old days I used to always include links to my previous relevant posts at the bottom of each post.
I wonder if that helped generate useful internal links.
And to get external links, at a low level having a personal standalone blog with links could possibly help.
At a higher level it would be good if Steem ever reached the same sort of status as Medium which some companies use for announcements etc which then get linked to.
That may be a bit too ambitious...
I've found what you were referring to before - once a post hits a payout of $10, the links within the post can then be read by web spiders - in technical terms, by default, a link within your post has a "nofollow" attribute which changes to "follow" once $10 is linked. I'm not sure I've explained it very well but hopefully you get the gist.
So linking to your other articles would benefit them if your post reaches $10.
I've read quite a lot about it this morning and found an old post by steemitblog which talks a little bit about SEO. The idea of "the canonical URL" and how duplicate (sometimes plagiarised) content damages a site's SEO is something I've subsequently looked into.
A few years ago, there was some interest in Steemit and SEO which I'd like to look into more when I have some time. Steemit once ranked in the top 1,000 for Alexa Site Rank.... it's now nearly at 4,000 and is falling rapidly.