I have a couple certificates from back in the day (including adsense monetization ;) as well as 20yrs experience practicing SEO, SEM and SMM. My first tech job was for PlanetClick.com back in '99.
SEO is a lot more than just writing, and frankly there's more than enough written SEO content available on the web since the early 2000's.
In essence, 'SEO Writing' won't help much.
SEO is considered when building the structure of a website, keyword densities, key-phrase use, meta-tags, creating and monitoring high quality backlinks, minifying code, working with bots and crawlers, domain age, user retention and most importantly Google Analytics to see what actually works.
Hive Blog will naturally demand SEO benefits of user generated content, which is GOLD to Google and other search engines.
In general SEO takes 2-weeks to 6mos to make a lasting effect on a website. By my estimates Hive should be fine in another couple months as we further decouple from Steem content, making Hive content truly unique to the chain.
The main focus behind my hobby Hive project is bringing traditional SEO benefits and targeted traffic to Hive projects, merchants and services
HiveWhat.com: Bringing consistent targeted-traffic to HIVE DApps, services, merchants and businesses via SEO, SEM and SMM.
Cheers
Thanks for the insights.
If you think there is a slight and a bit significant chance to SEO to help us, I think we should go for it. If you really think it won't help that much, then we should focus on other things.
I hoped SEO is a bit simpler :)