Hey donkeypong,
Cheers for this and the heads up to @princeqahaj's SEO post series. I too have now added them to my reading list.
I come from a digital marketing background myself and when I write professionally, no matter what Google tries to say about user experience, its written for a robot to crawl and a user to convert. The internet is full of posts written to please Google and now I'm involved in the industry, I cant not read pages in a manner that Google would which takes away the human element.
While I've been on Steemit however, I feel like the fact that SEO overoptimisation hasn't taken hold is highly refreshing. By being fully human again in writing as it's for this platform only, I feel the posts are real and as a result contain real value. Not just a marketing trick for a 3rd party robot to crawl.
Do either of you guys see any potential issues around Steemit content becoming bland and fake professional just like everywhere else if SEO for Google becomes a mainstream priority here?
Interested in your thoughts.
That's great point. I think if the quality of content is sacrificed in order to please the SEO gods, that probably would not be perceived very well by the community. Our system of rewards is imperfect and the voting behavior is even less perfect, but I still believe this community would not vote excessively on something that's poor quality content.
Please join Steemit.chat and contact me there. I'd love to continue the discussion.
'Real life' is getting in the way of steemit chat for now, but I've given you a follow and will keep in touch!