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     6 years ago (edited) 

    That’s to avoid duplicate content penalty in Google and other search engines.

    Normally the link even contains rel="canonical". Yet, the post wasn’t posted from theSteemObserver. The post was crossposted and posted through Busy as can be seen in the app data for the post.

    No double standards. Only justified disclosure. Some posts on theSteemObserver were first posted to the Steem blockchain and that is correctly disclosed and set as canonical link in those cases too. If you tweet any of those posts from SO, they will redirect to the Steemit version of the post.

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       6 years ago  

      Ah ok. I like seeing all the different ways people are posting actually since I have not tried everything and additionally I rely on trusted people first before I try something new

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         6 years ago  

        It’s a hack. Sometimes I post through @SteemPress, other times I do the footwork manually because SteemPress still requires some work to be done after publishing and its tag management is rather primitive (grabs first 5 WordPress tags for the post, WP sorts tags in alphabetical order so those aren’t always the tags you want on Steem).

        At least the Steem blockchain now has canonical support. That will change the SEO game for apps massively. Soon we will see always more non-condenser interfaces rank in search engines.

        I’ve already seen theSteemObserver outrank Steemit in DDG because of canonical. The landscape is changing and canonical was long overdue.

        That “little” tweak will motivate lots of innovation on the Steem blockchain. Finally dApps can rank for content posted through their interface.

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           6 years ago  

          Yes I’m glad that canonical change was done.

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