**Hello Steemians!**
 
After seeing overwhelming support from the Steemit community for my [Growth-Idea post](https://steemit.com/growth/@princewahaj/growth-idea-improving-steemit-s-seo-100), I am glad to present my Growth-Proposal to you.
 
As I discussed in that post, according to SemRush (a competitive intelligence suite for online marketing, SEO, PPC, social media, video advertising research, etc.), Steemit was ranked for 354,000 keywords. But as of writing this post, we have a new picture from SemRush which I took just a minute ago.

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**SemRush Update:**
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According to SemRush as of 23rd May 2017, Steemit is ranked for 358,000 keywords (yes, that's an increase of 4,000+ keywords) but surprisingly, there is a "drop" of traffic which indicates poor quality of keywords and lack of optimization. In my last post, I gave a screenshot of that time which indicated that number of monthly visitors were 63,000 from Google with 354,000 keywords ranked but now **we are seeing an increase in keywords but a drop in traffic (i.e visitors).**

<center>![https://s2.postimg.org/hxlz450vt/23_May_2017.png](https://s2.postimg.org/hxlz450vt/23_May_2017.png)
**Source: [SemRush](www.semrush.com)**</center>

 
Steemit is hardly ranked for "5,000 keywords" in top 10 of Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages are web pages served to users when they search for something online). And more than 70% of those keywords are of very low quality. There are only 1,500 to 2,000 keywords through which Steemit is successfully getting 59,900 visitors a month from Google.

<center>![enter image description here](https://s3.postimg.org/qzp6lhowj/23_May_2017_5000_keywords.png)
**Source: [SemRush](www.semrush.com)**</center>
 

**What’s Going On Here?**
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Put simply: Steemit is still struggling to be loved by Google. What's the reason for this? Lack of properly optimized S.E.O content.
 
Some people confuse S.E.O with "content only". Rest assured that “content only” S.E.O will not take you anywhere. You consider the demand of people, for example, by looking at Google trends and responding accordingly. 

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**S.E.O Basics:**
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S.E.O has three basic yet extremely-important components without which no one can be successful in ranking the content:
 
**1- Keyword Research** - Finding Well-Searched Keywords Relevant To Our Topic
**2- Keyword Competition And Analysis** - Perfect Strategy To Beat Our Competitors And Outrank Them
**3- Back-links And Social Shares** - Relevant Back-links To Boost Up Rankings
 
You will see people targeting "highly competitive" keywords which are unlikely to rank on Google (which I refer to as “most difficult keywords” due to high competition) OR they target those keywords for which there is little to no demand, which is a serious mistake. "Keyword Research and Competition Analysis", are two very important and if you're not doing well in these two sectors, then how you can expect good results from your work?
 
In the past few months, I was mainly busy researching keywords that are widely searched, analyzing the competitors, studying what kind of back-links and strategy each of the keyword requires and practicing all of those factors for Steemit. It took a lot of hard work. I've studied the competitors and prepared my strategies for my personal ranking project. Now, I have a lot of data for taking calculated action. I know just what keywords to rank.

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**So, what's the plan?**
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I will be posting S.E.O optimized content (with my blast keywords included organically). Search Engines demand high-quality which is perfect because I refuse to compromise on the quality of my posts. This S.E.O optimized content takes 3-4 hours per article because I'll have to consider the best places to optimize keywords to make it look "Natural" (Spamming won't take you anywhere :) ).
 
In good faith to Steemit, I am planning to dedicate those "Blast Keywords" to optimize with Steemit and rank Steemit for those keywords. I have multiple keywords planned and in total, I am planning to dedicate 250,000 to 500,000 Monthly Searches Keywords (that's the estimated total of those multiple keywords). That's almost 70 to 80% more of what is currently optimized. **And It will not need thousands of keywords. I believe in "Quality Over Quantity"**
 
For that purpose, I'll have to post on various topics which would require additional time from me to research about them first, and to maintain the quality.

I also plan to share some keywords with you so that we could work in shape of team, and since one person's ability and time is limited and sharing some keywords with you means that we will be speeding up the process of ranking. (I might prepare a detailed-post about this plan)
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**What do I need from you?**
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**Support!** In order to rank faster on Google, my research indicates that we'll need to keep the content hot with interactions like up-votes, comments and we'll also need social shares.
 

**The Importance of Social Signals:**
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Social signals are correlated with the visibility of content. And visibility is correlated with your vote-love. So all of these things are correlated specially with your "vote-love". Social signals play an important role in ranking with Google because it indicates to Google that they are missing something very important for which there is high demand.
 
Some people underestimate "Social Signals" while others overestimate it. The solution lies in the middle! We don't need to fully ignore "Social Shares" nor we want to focus only on "Social Shares". We just want to make it "one of other used strategies" to make sure that we actually rank for our content, and stay there for the long term.
 
If this content is visible enough on front page of Steemit for a long enough time, it will increase the chance of getting an organic back-link from a reputable site which will work like "booster" for Steemit.
 
**That's what I will need from you. Please make this post a huge success and let other people see our plan so that we can improve Steemit together. No one can beat the power of "Unity". Lets unite and work for the good of Steemit and for the good of our own future. I'll start working on S.E.O content for next week. Till that time, keep the momentum in our favor.**

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<center>***Special thanks to @andrarchy for helping me edit this piece.***</center>