In an earlier post about Steemit SEO I mentioned:
I discovered that Steemit.com has been smart and having all links to NoFollow until a user has reached a certain level of Reputation. I do not know exactly what the threshold score is but I think it is a good idea to prevent people who would use Steemit only for SEO purposes.
After testing I discovered that it wasn't true.
For those who don't know what NoFollow links, here is a short description:
Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. (Source)
I use a chrome extension called "NoFollow" which shows me when links are NoFollow. At first I was seeing that my articles on @ucluelet were NoFollow and all the one on my personal account were DoFollow. I came to the hasty conclusion that it must be because of reputation since everything I would look at articles from low reputation users, I would see NoFollow.
Here is an article that was in the "home" section before I voted for him:
Look at the payout:
After I vote for the article:
Conclusion
It seems that Steemit INC made the decision to only allow DoFollow links when the articles are "vetted" by a certain amount of RShare(voting weight)...which I think it even better than reputation.
In my head it one more reason to buy STEEMPOWER! That way, you can vote your own post so that you get DOFOLLOW on your links.
very interesting... is there a way to find out about the threshold?
I'll try asking in the github
So did you found out?
@cryptocropus, nice feature of Steemit. Very interesting thing to know, it is great that you brought it up. I believe that this feature is useful for Steemit.com SEO. It benefits all of us in the end, since Steemit will be overall higher in search results. In the Alexa rating it is constantly growing.
This is the chart that got me to join. I check alexa rankings all day long for sites. The ranking is phenomenal. I can't get this ranking anywhere else but you tube and I'm thrilled to be here for this reason alone. Again - why the dofollow is important to me.
Yeah, considering that Steemit is still so young, this amount of traffic and popularity is really phenomenal .
I guess it's time to invest money on steem if I want to get "easy" juicy dofollow links. Ok, now I am officially addicted to your posts. Can't wait for the next one. 😍😍😍
Very useful information, thank you! I am also SEO specialist and I was wonder about the backlinks which provide this website. Thank you once again, I hope someday people like you will Upvote my posts!
Asking @helpbot this question:
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Can you define the tipping point and give "Tips to Succeed" for creating a dofollow backlink for your steemit post and avoiding the nofollow? When is this decision made, can it change later, and what strategies are best to improve your chance of getting a follow link for your post? Is the decision made per person or per post or a combo of factors?
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Backlinks are a critical feature of this platform for me and for the content creators I would be inviting to join. If it takes months to get them or if it takes $$$ on a post, that will be very necessary to know in order to convince people to try. It's all about the alexa/moz ranking for my healthcare, author, and social media friends. They will want to know what to shoot for.
In this case, I'm asking for numerical data of some type, not the answer of: "Just keep posting, commenting, and replying, and all will be revealed in the future." I cannot market steemit to my friends with such a nebuolous reply and I have it already to many of my prior questions. I got it.
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Can you define the tipping point and give "Tips to Succeed" for creating a follow backlink for your steemit post and avoiding the nofollow?
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Ok got it - thank you for doing this :)
I did not know this! Thank you for informing the community about the DoFollow and the allowance on them by Steemit INC.
You are right, that's another reason to buy a steem. But it is also good to separate the quality content from the rest
Some awesome detective work! That's good to know that works, and a very clever way to help prevent spam on steemit.com from impacting SEO. I had no idea this is what was happening :)
thank for the info
please upvote
There are many steem front ends. The posts with
nofollowat Steemit can be indexed in other steem websites, I suppose.Yes...but they dont have the domain authority steemit.com has.
It actually makes sense for a site to privilage those who have most invested in it. Loved the articale, gonna steem up asap!
We must invest in steempower to start getting DOFOLLOW. That's interesting, i will give it a try right now. Thanks for the information.
Not quite. Either write an article other people like and upvote OR buy SteemPower to upvote your own.
Any idea if post upvotes have a cumulative or "stacking" effect towards a DoFollow attribution?
With the way voting habits have changed since HF19, I'm wondering if you still get the full benefit from someone with a lot of SP but only giving a 5% or 10% upvote.
Or you could pay a few dollars to the upvote bots such as randowhale or booster to get the link to become dofollow.
That boosts "bad" posts though and is not good for the ranking in the long run. You only want to good posts to rank.
Very useful info....
Thanks for letting me know. I wrote a few articles to get backlinks but I noticed (after reading this post) that my post with less than a dollar or even a few dollars gets nofollow, and others with about $20 or $30 has no "nofollow" tag.
How are you checking this? I should be doing it too.
Just right click the post and click "view page source". Look for the link (Ctrl+f) and see if there's a nofollow tag on it. I actually wrote an article on this.
https://steemit.com/seo/@howtostartablog/a-big-hole-in-my-backlink-strategy
Thank you! I have no idea how I have lasted so long without knowing this key piece of information. I really appreciate this help!
No prob @fitinfun! Glad to help :)
Highly interesting. Now I thought you was penalized for voting for yourself? I can't recall the details or circumstances but it was something to the effect that it didn't look good, maybe for voting power but again, I can't remember.
I read that only if you have 1000 sp+ you get dinged for voting for your own comments - not sure if that is true.
Depends on the context. If for example I voted my own comment here to $20...the optic is not good. Upvoting your own post has never been seen as negative as far as I know.
Your saying to have more SP so that you get DoFollow in your posts if you vote for yourself, instead of NoFollow from too low SP? So we should all be voting for ourselves on Steemit to make our posts more popular on the web, because of this setup? Thanks for the promo lol, I was surprised to see it when I opened this post. :)
2 options. Either get other people to love your posts and upvote it AND/OR buy SP to get your posts to have DoFollow. :-)
So it's not when a poster with enough SP, it's a change from nofollow to dofollow when enough vests are allocated to a post? It's in the code to check and change the generation of a page based on SP votes?
So how exactly does it switch between dofollow and nofollow? What is the breaking point?
I have no idea how it works lol.
wow this is a great post I can appreciate this post for it's true value and knowledge for us steemers this will save us lucrative amount of time trying to do what we do best instead of having our time wasted keep up the good posting I will be upvoting and following as well.
This is amazing information! Thank you! Subscribed to you now 😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻😻
Wow, 10 dollars is not enough to get dofollows?
Not really sure I support this tactic.
Going from reputation is certainly much better.
The treshold is calculated in rshare so price will change. DoFollow are very valuable and shouldnt be given to anyone with high reputation. Articles by articles popularity make sense
Yes and no.
They are valuable but I'm not sure that the rshare threshold is the most appropriate way.
Maybe a mix of the two?
Totally fine with it being rshare though.
Do follow up with what exactly what the rshare threshold is.
So what you're saying is that you have to pay to play the SEO game on Steemit. Did you figure out where the threshold is?
Not quite. Either buy or make a good article other people like :-) (both is ideal of course)
I've got no issue with pay to play or just get good as you said. Just wondering if an upvote for $20 is needed or lets say a $5 single upvote or 50 upvotes all adding up to $30.
Thats super interesting! Do you think the links in posts affects the posts value in any way? I noticed that the post value of my promoted post today when down in value after promoting it? Any connection?
I figured this time ago, in an article that got 200+ upvotes but only 0,4$ payout (before HF19), the article with this many upvotes and more than 40 comments wont get the "hot" page, but other article with 10 upvotes but 30$ payout did reached the "hot" page, so what steemit is giving priority to the search is payout and it only makes sense, the system wants people to buy steem...
This is actually really interesting! I wonder how highly valued the post must be before the link is converted to dofollow. I think this is an okay way to prevent shameless link spam, but unless the limit for getting a dofollow is pretty high, it can be achieved easily by paying a few of the upvote bots.
Edit: I did some quick tests, and it currently seems that the dofollow kicks in at around the $9-$10 mark, at least on my posts.
Thanks for the info buddy! When you joind steemit?
14 months ago.
Oh waao so you are one of the key members of steemit,really nice to meet you buddy :)
Very clever of SteemIt, perfect for future marketing sales as SteemIt expands CHEERS to the genius that thought of that one.
Great discovery! I also use Steemit for SEO and find that it provides a powerful back link that, in some cases, is all you need for great SEO. Imagine if Facebook links were DOFollow. That's pretty much how powerful Steemit links are.
I am new and I kind of get what you are saying maybe.
What would be the threashhold to make the change to dofollow?
If you get past the 7 days is that post sealed as to which type it is?
Is this per post? Or per steemer?
This is critically important to me since I am one of the"people who would use Steemit only for SEO purposes" <<< except take out the "only." I am definitely here for the platform and the money and the interaction. However I have 3500 pieces of content spewed out all over the internet and I want to drive traffic there too.
This post is the first to tell me that my second goal is not in keeping with the platform, so any further information about this would help me a lot. Thank you.
You will have to get above the treshold before the end of the payout period...past that, people can't vote on an article. (as the rule stands right now and it may change in the future).
Each post are independent. If I don't get votes up to the amount necessary, no DoFollow on the article. This is why investing in SP can have SEO benefits.
Thank you for this explanation. I will have to grow my sp organically as I have nothing to invest but I will focus on doing that :)
Thanks for your work on this. I've definitely learned thinks from your recent posts about this. It sure would be helpful to know where the threshold is -- not that I can do anything about it, lol. But it does give me something to aims towards!
Most excellent. Thanks for the useful tips on how to better use this platform we love so much!
May include this in my next issue of ~(~Q2C2~)~
SteemON!
Yo Yo @cryptoctopus!
I found this post to be a great and valuable contribution to our Steemit community!
One of the best I have read today. I really appreciate how many articles you post that actually improve the steemit experience for so many. You are truly a valuable contributor to our community!
I just posted a new episode of ~(~Q2C2~)~ and featured your project in hopes to advertise it and bring in more support!
Keep up the great work!
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I want to know more about his RSHARE!!! How exactly are they vetted?
Thanks for this analysis — I’ve also noted that Steemit articles rank very well in google searches.
thank you! @cryptocropus
Thanks for the information
Great info thanks for sharing it with us and keep up the good work here on steemit :)
Tačhouk ğoużl
Thank informations
Very amazing.. How can i be like you.. Please show me the way. Upvote me please..
helpful
UP Vote and steem power is the power of the future :)
Hey Renaud, thanks for info! Helps a lot.
Always checking for updates!)
That's some nice investigative work! I wonder what the threshold is.
Good to know, thank you!
woow Nice post :)
Definitely interesting thinking!
It is worth checking out, thanks!
Definitely worth investing in Steempower then! Thanks for the article.
I dont understand T_T
That's super interesting info. Thanks. I have heard similar on Reddit.
Yes it is nofollow. I have checked the link which I referred as a source.
Very interesting. Must admit I do not like the ide of upvoting my own content. Makes you think though. X