Weekly link reports

The report for Week 2 for September is already available.

Linkback bot updates

• Linkback bot is now more efficient and uses less blockchain space by switching to markdown from HTML. Savings can reach 20-50% per comment. Thanks to @clayop for suggesting this feature!
• Fixed bug with false positives for link detection. Thanks to @timcliff for the bugreport.
• Some authors generating a lot of noisy links were excluded to increase signal/noise ratio.

Community response

Why build a linkback bot for Steem?

• To increase follower counts of related authors by providing additional discovery mechanism
• To increase payouts for authors of high quality collections and authors whose posts are included in collections
• To increase of number of posts linking out by providing incentives to do so
• To increase number of views per visit and time spent interacting with Steem
• To increase steemit.com traffic from search engines
• For fun and profit

At this moment linkback bot is still in alpha and runs with limited capacity.

Roadmap

Linkback bot is under development.

• Post language detection and bot i18n
• Author analytics
• Personal analytics
• Tag analytics
• Mention and linkbacks notifications by twitter, etc
• Possible link weighting by rewards
• Spam prevention features