Today's 100 Best Performing Steem Posts Based on Search Traffic. Who's Getting the Most Visits Via Google Searches?
Following on from my earlier post where I highlighted traffic patterns on the Steem blockchain using traffic analysis - Now I have the beginnings of a new post series for us all... The best perfomring posts of the day, based on Search Engine analysis.
Since we do not have the actual traffic data from Steemit.com, the following figures are estimated using specialist software tools. Actual figures may vary significantly (or not!).
As you can see below, some surprising posts on Steemit are receiving a lot of traffic from Google - yet they are often not receiving any upvotes from Steem users... Maybe this is an opportunity for you to find new, interesting content?
Some of the top performing authors of the day are:
@xameer
@thcpanda
@an0nkn0wledge
@xackcollins
@libertyranger
@auditoryorgasms
@nathanralph
@gizmosia
@shayne
Top 100 Best Performing Pages on Steemit.com - 13/9/2018 (Estimated)
The following is a list of pages from Steemit.com that are estimated to have attracted the most organic search traffic from the web today (13th September).
Traffic percentage = Amount of the total traffic that visited Steemit.com for the day that each page received.
Traffic = Estimated amount of visits that each page received during the period.
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What do you think? Is this kind of data useful to you? Let me know in the comments below?
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I'd rather have the view counter back; I don't have time to also game the system in addition to spending several days on creating content. From a content consumer perspective this will get interesting as it will also generate more traffic to the listed posts.
I presume they removed the view counter because it is so tough to calculate views accurately. I think it's a good thing to expose the posts that are attracting the most traffic from search engines, as we can reward them for that - and it looks like a lot of them aren't being rewarded at all. I will aim to fill in the details of how these figures are being calculated in the next post on this topic.
That would be great, but keep in mind that even Google's Search Engine has been manipulated for years. Depending on your goals or target, it is possible to write an article that would rank high for certain search terms. There are SEO specialists that do this for websites as a paid service and this aspect will eventually apply to Steemit posts as well and articles could be specifically tailored to rank well for the SE rather than a human reader.
Either way, I look forward to seeing how this will work out; anything to provide an alternative to the trending page is a good thing. Great idea!
Thanks! Yes, I know that Google is heavily manipulated - my own site was effectively delisted for over 5 years. It certainly could be that the data I am getting is completely wrong - but there are a lot of companies relying on the same database, so I would hope it is at least accurate enough to be useful in most cases.
Yep, not everything about Google is bad, lol. I certainly like the possibility that otherwise unnoticed posts get another chance.
Since I have your attention I wonder if you'd give your opinion on steemflagrewards. They are flagging posts that in my opinion don't meet the definition of plagiarism and they are rewarding flaggers for their effort.
If you'd rather stay out of this discussion I understand. Greetings!
I have found that all of the vigilante downvote services have made bad decisions along the way - just like the offline 'police' do. I hadn't heard of steemflagrewards before - do you have an example of their poor logic/decisions?
I do, I think this one, certainly a low effort post, does not meet the definition of plagiarism since the poster did not copy and re upload the video, nor did the poster claim it was his work. I don't necessarily disagree with taking rewards away from zero effort posting, but I also think plagiarism is not proven.
https://steemit.com/ww/@punta/six-person-mixed-tag-team-match-smackdown-april-10-2012
Ok thanks - I have left a comment under that post for the pirate! (How ironic) ;)
but what does today mean here anyway?
an0ns post is one year old and the account hasn't posted anything since two weeks (only one I am following of the first mentioned).
The data is meant to be representative of the traffic that has been measured from search engines literally today only. Tomorrow the data will be different and so too will it be different every other day. Why exactly these posts get a lot of traffic on any particular day will always change.. In some cases there may be high demand for the information that wasn't there when the post was originally made, so the post is found to have a long term value that was not recognised at the time it was originally made.
I find the ones that came up a rather odd/disturbing mix
will be interesting to see further ones
so weird how many are from a year ago,
Search traffic rarely looks only for new pages, the relevance to the search term is most important.
ahhh, makes sense,that's cool....I wrote that article a year ago in Hurricane Irma :)
Hi @ura-soul just wondering what SEO software you used, was it market samurai or something else, cheers
I looked at market samurai but could see that their documentation is out of date and their data is not as reliable or useful as other options. I am currently using SEMRush.
Ok cool thanks