Writing "SEO Content" means that one is writing with the Google Algorithm targeted as the primary reader.
We need to stop surrendering our power to Google.
White hat SEO is primarily about the structure of a web site. The various platforms built around HIVE have some SEO. Notably, the platform of a post denotes the canonical source of a post.\
That is pretty the only SEO this platform needs.
But lets get back to SEO.
The Google algorithm was designed to ferret out authoritative sources. Googlebot counts the links to an inbound page. If there are quality inbound links to a page, then Googlebot considers it an authoritative source.
The posts on HIVE are driven by the seven day publishing cycle.
Because of this, HIVE writers rarely have links to other HIVE posts. That means that HIVE authors are not building up SEO in their posts.
This really doesn't matter because the HIVE publishing cycle does not align with the Google update cycle.
But, I am not writing on HIVE for the benefit of Google! I am sick of having the content of every site I visit overrun by people running SEO schemes to influence Google.
Anyway, if you want to influence HIVE's rank in Google. The best way to do this is put links to sites using the blockchain on other web sites. I have a directory page with links to Hive . I drop links to HIVE on other sites.
Speaking of SEO. Hive made a huge mistake when it chose its name. The term "hive" is used in so many network related applications that it will never show well on Google. In contrast, STEEM is a unique term. The developers of HIVE blew the SEO game from the starting gate.
I don't mind that. I am sick of SEO which surrenders our power to Google.
Exactly! Big mistake! There's even a blockchain company called Hive.
For the first several months, all of my Hive related google searches brought up Hive Blockchain Technologies. Sadly, when a company fails to consider SEO in the formation stage, the game is simply lost.
BTW, one of the biggest arguments that Hive Blockchain Technologies has in its trademark dispute with Hive is that Hive destroyed its SEO abilities. As Hive SEO improves, the ability of people to find info on Hive Blockchain Technologies diminishes.
I think Hive was branded far too quickly. Hive should've been announced as a provisional name only and the name should've been decided based on a public contest.
I wish there was an open discussion of the name.
The problem is with the domain names. Unfortunately, it is difficult to have an open discussion about a brand name without the eavesdroppers on the discussion immediately squatting on the best domains.
Conversely, we saw that the instigators of the hardfork grabbed prime names before the market was aware of the schism. This limited the opportunities for outsiders to establish themselves after the hardfork. Branding is a difficult game.
That's true.
Thanks for the feedback. Really good to know this stuff.
It really seems that SEO is not that much compatible with blockchain tech. But it still is to some degree and that means we can do something about it to try to get our ranks up. At least we can try.
Cheers!
Yeah,the backlink building; a major part of Search Engine Optimization and only thing that can help atm. SEO is not an overnight thing, takes months of analytics etc.
Hive Blockchain Search & Directory it's been up since the fork.@yintercept pls check out the