I've always been pretty impressed with the amount of traffic I see come from Reddit when I've made a concerted effort to post out to it. Because of the similarities in what Steemit has to offer with Reddit, I definitely think its going to be a lynch pin in any successful growth efforts, especially growth outside of the crypto community (which is key for viability).
The SEO impact makes sense, and just adds to the list of good reasons to start pulling Redditors into the fold on Steem.
Proposed Reddit->Steemit Strategy
- define weekly community goals for outreach as a group based on the type of people/topics we want to onboard (/r/philosophy, /r/technology, etc)
- focus attention on posting to/upvoting those categories on Steemit for that week and a bit on either side of it to seed its activity
- actively cross reference your posts to the best fit on Reddit
- keep an eye on Reddit in the subs we focus on for posts/comments that gel with content on Steemit and reply as a comment or DM to point it out to them/give a super brief gist of Steemit (like think Twitter sized pitch... and public reply is better when possible since it gets more eyeballs)
- before determining the next set of topic/community goals, analyze the success of onboarding for that week and discuss any ways to improve the effort
Something to keep in mind: the early adopters make the community. While the end goal might be to want everyone, if we can aim for contributors of higher quality content its much, much better for making the community appeal to new people on its own merits.