i wrote about this some time ago. google is not happy with hive blockchain, other search engines do much better. why, we can speculate and go to conspiracy theories.
i know almost nothing on ranking things on search engines and web development, but we could look at this from other side. if we had some specific name that means that people would find it only if the search for that specific name. now if we manage to move to the first page on just Hive we would get more random people on.
i know that only crypto people use presearch but if you search hive there first thing is info about hive (coingecko info).
on powerdown, i kinda could not care if it went one way or another as i think it would not do much difference. 35-40% of hive is staked and i don't think those that don't stake it now would do it if there was 4 weeks powerdown. maybe i am wrong...
I have a friend who works for a large SEO company and they have such a hard time keeping up with arbitrary changes to the Google algorithm. It's just so opaque, and even a company that's been doing really well can have their traffic slashed 10-fold for no apparent reason.
I found Hive through a blog post about eco-friendly NFTgalleries. Then I saw a detailed github post that mentioned NFT Showroom too and my interest was peaked. From there I was drawn into thewider Hive eco-system. So yes, ultimately, I think it's the quality of dapps will help get word out, and the fact that they're all "cross-pollinated" is a big draw.
dapps would need to do more to get outside people and a good app can get more people. i would personally want more connections between apps.
and maybe the number of posts, comments and activity will help in rankings.
Actually I checked on Presearch, which uses Dsearch by default. Top results there are the same as Google, but it looks like @liondani bought an ad. That's good if it leads people here. I expect it would be more expensive to get the same ad visibility on Google. I don't think it needs 'conspiracy theories'. Other brands with that name are more interesting to the world. We may each see different results based on location and other factors.
We need some SEO experts to tell us what will improve visibility.
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this is what i get on presearch when i search for hive
this post is from month ago, so not sure would results be the same.
https://leofinance.io/@bil.prag/google-not-happy-with-decentralized-media
On the Presearch engine I do get the Coingeko listing plus the Hiveonboard ad. Actually DSearch gets the same. As you said, few people would use those. Most use whatever their browser defaults to.
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BEER.I'd like to apologise in advance for my SEO ramblings elsewhere on the thread. The tl:dr version is: Hive.io is definitely not prey to a Google penalty, and its rankings are generally quite healthy at least in the US, but it's sorely lacking in other territories.
The main consideration for me is that it is relying almost exclusively on 8.1m backlinks (links from other sites to hive.io), rather than relying on having a competent organic SEO strategy implemented on the site itself. Hive's domain authority rating (SEMRush's statistic) gives us a score of '55', which is actually very healthy (60+ is considered excellent), so I think it any on-page/on-site tweaks could have a more potent impact that sites with, say, authority scores of 12.
ramblings are fine and appreciated 😀