RE: Introducing SteemPress beta, a wordpress plugin for steem
Interesting stuff. I didn’t read all of the comments so I may be repeating what others have written.
Aside from being punished by Cheetah et al, the bloggers may be punished by Google et al for having duplicate content. If they SEO their blogs (and Wordpress is great for SEO), this will hurt unless all content has a cite tags around it.
The biggest impediment to spreading Steem is the one week delay to get an account. Most people can accept an email or text verification. Steem requires both which is fine. The problem is then waiting a week!
Why is that important? The best way to spread Steem would be to allow content (text, images and video) and comments to be written onto the blockchain rewards to be awarded on other sites and apps. That happens on Dtube and others but these sites are only for Steemians because you have to work to be one.
We were thinking of canonical links and backlinks to the original article, what do you mean by cite tags ?
As for cheetah we don't think it'll be a problem if you reach to them to get into their whitelist.
Ah yes the good old user registration problem. Hopefully it'll be fixed with the mining soft fork that's coming next where people can mine for their accounts.
Totally agree, steempress is only the first step here, in the future we want to reach a full integration where you can directly upvote/comment on the blog and it communicates with the blockchain (with all the underlying effects)
Oops, it looks like the cite tag was changed a while back. You are correct about cross-domain canonical links. Hopefully this will avoid duplicate content penalties. If you can, including that in the benefits of your service and in the FAQ should help with signing up bloggers.
Where can I find info on the mining soft fork?
Steempress looks great! As to the upvote/commenting, I started looking at SMTs. I'm working on an app that I want to allow users to post pictures and have upvotes/comments integrated into the Steem environment to be able to earn for their engagement. Am I looking in the right place?
https://steemit.com/@steemitblog is the account on which announcements are made, so far very few info has slipped.
Smts are very promising ! But since nothing is out yet. I'd rather code on stuff that exists and is testable.
Kinda like https://steepshot.io/ ? aka Instagram for steem ?
I don't really get what you mean by that.