As a content creator, I feel I can only do so much with the limited information I have.
Past few months my content has been dropping in search rankings from the best I can tell by just brute-forcing checking manually. My Steemit URLs are getting replaced by Steempeak. This just tells you we have a major switch going on in what frontend users are enjoying consuming content on.
I myself made the switch a while back to using Steempeak more often. The downside I have so much build up all trying send traffic to my Steemit URLs. I still promote Steemit over Steempeak for now. At some point, I feel I’ll need to spend a couple of weekends switching over a lot of internal and external links and other stuff going on.
It’s hard to target the outside world when I am running mostly blind over here in what is or is not working. What I’m ranking for and a bunch of other stuff. That has been the major issue and for whatever reason we seem to have very few Steem pages in the top 100 for topics that we should 10000% have without even trying. Heck even when I show up in top search results I’ll have 2 to 4 different frontends up there as well and then they all vanish for around a week before Google will show the front end that won out.
I took this screenshot the other day regarding a post I wrote two weeks ago. While the full URLs are not showing. I, in fact, had those two slots as both Steempeak and Steemit. They have even switched around with Steemit being up there and then both going missing for a week. That is also as I suspect going be a decent search term for that game as it grows bigger if I can hold onto it. Which I have quite the plan in doing so.
This is not the first time I’ve written something with the intent to rank well in search results and try to bring views in. I’m also no expert on SEO and what is working or not is 100% just a guess on my end since I don’t have a clue on page views, ranking, traffic sources, and other stuff.
Without manually searching for such terms using the tool I did I would not even know. It’s also not practical for me having to manually search for 100’s to 1k’s of terms to try and work out what I can better improve by editing old posts or making new ones better in-depth regarding a gap and targeting
The best metrics I have right now are how my Tweets are performing. That only tells me so much. The above is regarding my latest post. It will take years to grow out my Twitter account but I do what I can. That is only one of quite a few things to get the outside world to notice.
I also have so much I need to work out and learn myself. If we had an army of people just trying and sharing a little more to the outside world. Makes me wonder what could be done.
This is a good example of a fundamental challenge Steemit has, discovery.
It's hard to do good search within any front end I've come across and if I am using steempeak, I would rather just get sent there when I search Google vs having to manually change the URL.
It's hard to explain any of this to normies, and it's frustrating to those of us that want to use Steemit as a social platform.
That it is. I have even gone as far as making an index of my own content as there no easier way to go about things.