RE: Falling out with Alexa and making friends with Google - write as if your steem life depended on it...
A big reason steemit is falling off the alexa wagon is because no one in their right mind is posting with that clunky old dinosaur. I stopped using steemit about one year ago and do not regret it one bit.
I post on dApps that have beautiful interfaces and pay me with upvotes when I use them.
When I came here 2 years ago, steemit's alexa ranking was one of the selling points. I thought it would help with my weight loss work. This is my original reason for being on social media at all.
Thanks to the STEEM blockchain, I post on many more niche topics now and have great places set up to do that work.
I use steempeak and steemworld for admin activities. I post and/or interact with busy, esteem, dPoll, dLike, partiko, dtube, nTopaz, tasteem, steemhunt, travelfeed, 3speak, on and on we go.
STEEM has fantastic dApps and steemit is not one of them. I write minnow tips and the first thing I tell people is to stop posting with steemit if they even are when they get here now. I cannot think of one good thing to say about the place except that they were the pioneer who got us started. Like IBM fell to Apple and Microsoft, steemit will some day only be a memory. It cannot happen soon enough.
Check the alexas for the GOOD dApps. They are not where steemit used to be, but they are rising. We are decentralized, and so each dApp is different..
And don't even mention how bad steemit looks to newcomers, I refer nobody from the outside there at all. Check @jaynie's recent post on that topic. On top of looking like a site from 2014, the first impression is dismal in every way. I refer people with steempeak or busy for best results. Others use other dApps, but it will take time to turn this ship.
Steempeak is definitely showing good growth on Alexa.
It will be interesting to follow how traffic grows on other apps and the new tribe sites.
The immediate issue affecting all of us is that it is steemit.com that Steemit Inc is selling advertising on.
And that ad revenue is needed to reduce their need to sell STEEM, which should in theory help the price of STEEM.
Hopefully at some point soon steemit.com will be given a serious makeover and uplift reflecting its role as a flagship interface for the steem blockchain.
You can look at the alexa for all of the dApps. All those I have checked are growing now.
I have ad-blocker on all my browsers as many do. I cannot help them out of the hole they dug since I never use them. The presence of the ads is one of the topics on @jaynie's post.
It's hard enough to get new people to start here without telling them to go to the worst dApp we have and click ads. Maybe the whales and orcas can take that on as a project, but new users have no time for such nonsense.
Ergh.... I'm hoping for a unicorn myself.
They had their chance and they blew it. Go to the other dApps to see the excellence currently available on the STEEM blockchain. Push those and then we will really have something.
Maybe it is a good thing that steemit inc is selling off? We don't like $0.15 steem, but eventually they will be out of steem to sell, and the redistribution will be done, and then we can climb steadily from there.
one of the biggest problem with Alexa and a blockchain ecosystem like Steem is that it has no way of detecting and then presenting data on the actual platform which would tell more of a story than if people are visiting one entry point.
My suspicion is that as blockchains become more mainstream, Alexa is the one which will need to adapt or become a new myspace.
As for Steemit.com, it is my preferred site. It's simple straightforward and has all I need. All my content is prepared offline, the only thing a frontend like Steempeak gives me is the ability to add 5 more tags.
With the only the very crude data we have available it is difficult to draw any insightful conclusions. Would need full Google Analytics to go more into this.
A very useful metric would be somehow to track aggregated traffic across all the Steem blockchain interfaces. That would give a much better picture.