The Steemit SEO Problem: How my tutorial became the top Google Search Result for "Steemit Guide" and why it doesn't matter
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0.000 HBDThe Steemit SEO Problem: How my tutorial became the top Google Search Result for "Steemit Guide" and why it doesn't matter
<html> <p><img src="https://i.imgsafe.org/4b2a734f70.jpg" width="1200" height="702"/></p> <h2>When I first joined Steemit, I couldn't believe what I was seeing.</h2> <p>How was any of this possible? Where the hell was all the money coming from? I had no idea.</p> <p>And without really understanding what I was doing, I wrote my first post. It made about $100 and completely blew my mind. I was hooked.</p> <p>I spent the entire day trying to understand what Steemit was, and how exactly it all worked. It took so many hours of reading before I actually understood what was going on.</p> <p>But I did understand and I figured that other people were going to want to figure it out, too. So I broke it down in the simplest way I possibly could.</p> <p>I felt like an imposter writing a guide. But my second post was the guide in question:</p> <h2><a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@mindover/steemit-for-dummies-like-me-everything-you-need-know-to-get-started">Steemit for Dummies (like Me): Everything you Need to Know in Simple Terms</a></h2> <p>It earned a whopping $.15 in the first 24 hours. Eventually it grew to about $150, but at the time it was crickets.</p> <h1>The Top Ranked Steemit Guide on Google</h1> <p>Over the last month, my Steemit guide continued to get new comments almost every single day. But I never understood how people were still finding it. It hadn't trended in weeks.</p> <p>Yet every day people were writing in to say they were finally able to understand what Steemit was all about.</p> <p>Eventually I discovered why when one of my commenters said: "I found your post googling for "steemit guide" (not directly on Steemit site) and it was #1 result on google!"</p> <p><img src="https://i.imgsafe.org/4add3b90af.jpg" width="1000" height="511"/></p> <p><em>(I changed the name after posting the guide but it didn't update on google)</em></p> <p>I was blown away.</p> <p>I wasn't sure how in the hell it had happened but it had and that was all that mattered.</p> <p>Or so I thought.</p> <p>In the end it didn't matter at all, because on Steemit, SEO just isn't a part of the equation.</p> <h1>SEO vs Curation:</h1> <p>I want to say that I do understand the rationale behind the Steemit algorithms. I completely get why SEO doesn't really make sense on a platform that churns out an endless stream new content every single day.</p> <p>The name of the game here is personal curation and while it's not perfect as it stands now, it does work.</p> <p>But it also makes you wonder. Is there a place on Steemit for SEO as well?</p> <p>Is having the best content continuously cycled out of visibility every 12 or 24 hours really the best way to do it?</p> <p>Would it even be possible to implement a system for long term visibility of popular posts?</p> <p>I definitely don't have the answers. Maybe someone else will.</p> <p>But seeing my post at the top of Google, something I've never been able to do with my person blog, made me wonder if perhaps there is a better way.</p> <p>I'm curious to hear what everyone thinks!</p> </html>
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