Yes-no-no-yes, does that answer your question? :p I do help the company I work for with some SEO things sometimes, but the majority of the work is on the people that write the content. I merely help them with what I know
To go a bit more into depth, there are a lot of tricks and tips in regards to SEO that is know to the public: keywords, minimum amount of characters, language usage (also very important) and many more technical specifications. Further there is the thing that is to stay updated with things. Especially since AI the SEO landscape has grown significantly.
There are however 2 problems with SEO on Hive or steem or any other fork that might exist out there:
- 1 Page load speed, yes page load speed is a parameter, but because of how the blockchain functions it just cannot compete with the speed of a centralized database. And whenever the default node is down that will affect the SEO score terribly
- 2 plagiarism: And I don't mean in the way of someone stealing content (though that is of course also an issue) but the problem is that there are multiple front ends and viewers for the Blockchain. This means that the exact same content will appear on multiple front ends. This is causing a huge problem where the search engine will most likely flag the first front end where it indexes as the original content and the other front-ends as plagiarized. To put it in layman's terms: all front ends (peakd, hive.blog) which are meant to built the blockhain, are breaking the blockchain down on a SEO level
It's fair to say that SEO and blockchain are at this point just not a good match.
That being said however, there is content wise room for improvement. If just 1% would bring a bit more quality to their content it would already be an enormous boost, and besides that, it would just be nicer for the people that read that content as well :)
If there is really a need for that I could make some videos about the things that I know (or can research) but maybe there are some other people on the task already
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could a delay from the front end from posting into the chain solve that issue . would google pick up on say 1 minute delay? to decided where the content originated?
Depending on how big the front end is, yes. Compare it with Twitter, there are some websites out there that index tweets that appear on Twitter. But because they have to appear on twitter first before they can scrape them or fetch them through an API, Twitter can't be hurt as they will always get indexed first (plus since it's a big tech company they probably have more than one support line with Alphabet/Google)
In this specific use case however you'd still need one front end that shows them first meaning that any of the other front ends would tumble down due to plagiarism checks. So than it becomes a question about which one to use. In the future I hope to see the block chain itself getting crawled by search engines and users on that search engine can choose in their settings which platform they prefer to be redirected too
Another issue with plagiarism is some of the apps and plugins that use Hive like the Wordpress plugin Steempress: https://wordpress.org/plugins/steempress/ users can use to cross post the content they put on their blog to the Hive blockchain but can choose to put a delay. That way they can always make sure that their blog gets indexed first by search engines
Not taken the latter into account (which is my biggest concern to be honest because I don't see a real solution for it). Putting some time and effort into making your content SEO friendly is really not that bad of an idea. While it might not pay of just yet, or not very well at least I do think in due time search engines will adapt to these circumstances
I get it :/
If there's a chance those engines will adapt. we better be prepared by having our SEO content all over the place.
Thanks a lot for this info, I hope it will help others. Now I hate u even more <3
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Thanks a lot for these insights.
Maybe they are not a match but, as you said, we can do something to boost our SEO score, or whatever's it called.
Maybe we cannot be at the top but one step closer to the top is better than no step, yo!
Thanks for tipu-ing me, you deserve Fritulas when u come to visit me :)
BTW, thanks for the offer. I was aiming at someone who is really good at it and can present it in a really good way with a lot of insights. I mean, if you think you can do it, go for it. I'll try to promote it as much as I can.
Nothing against u, u know that. Bitch :D :D
That's ok broski, you know I love you <3
It's an everlasting changing landscape and full time SEO specialists are simply the best for the work. Like I said I can make some videos, I was thinking about short videos (max 3 minutes) where I touch a specific topic and try to make it as low barrier as possible, so it doesn't feel like a drag. But I would have to research the topics first to make sure that I'm up to date with how it is today and that I'm not telling anything that is outdated. I prefer to do it good than quick
If you want to, go for it! Step by step and we'll be good in no time. We just need those damn engines to find our content! Bastrdz