Steemit SEO and Why I'm Not Worried About It
I've received several questions about Steemit SEO over the last couple of weeks and it's really got me thinking about my plans to use Search Engine Optimization on my channel. Ultimately I've decided that SEO will not be a part of my long term strategy on Steemit and in today's video I share my thoughts on why I came to this conclusion.
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Mmm interesting! I haven't worried about SEO on my blog and is also doing great, maybe is a good strategy
Exactly, I don't feel like it's a necessary component to one's success here on Steemit. Which is a great thing for us. :)
Yeah SEO can be a pretty difficult stuff to learn, specially if you don't have all the time in the world haha
I think for normal blogs SEO is less important because most of the users get a recommendation from someone else or find it randomly and than they stay. There is not much searching for a blog
I am not a blogger and first time to hear about the SEO. I cannot form a solid opinion if we should use it or not, but I am sure I will follow you to learn good new stuff :)
it will be interesting to see how the blockchain affects SEO. With everything becoming decentralized, what will be the role of search engines like Google?
What would really be interesting is if projects like Presearch really gain traction. Presearch describes themselves as a decentralized search engine, powered by the community. I could get behind that.
I did hear about a decentralized search engine last year, not sure if it was Presearch (it could have been). Seems pretty interesting either way. But I do love Google like a lot of people :)
edit: it was Presearch, just checked :)
Hey Brandon, thanks for the great info and video. What is this YouTube thing you're using? Do they have a good payout format? 😜
Seriously though, thanks for the video. I'm a self-employed writer and SEO is very important to what I do, but the quality of content is 10x more important as you know. More people will find and join Steemit, and more people will find our content on here. And while Medium is high in the rankings, posts get completely lost.
Lol yeah this YouTube thing doesn't pay nearly enough. 🤣
👍 Great informative video. Seriously I was working before in a mini call center to convince business establishment in U.S to have SEO. But, I don’t know 🤷♀️ exactly how it will be done. Will follow your post , I know it will be a great help t get attention from other steemians. 🙏 Thank you and more power @brandonfrye.
Thanks @soulbella, I appreciate your comments. And yeah I'm sure that SEO will always play a part for traditional websites and blogs. I'm actually glad we don't have to depend on it here.
@brandonfrye Can essentially be its own one stop shop for everything from video to SEO (in time). It's just a matter of the platform evolving and growing. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks @jr11.. yeah I think we'll have it all here on Steemit in due time. :)
Thanks for sharing your insight. I believe #Steem already has a search engine. It's called http://asksteem.com. Right now, they have 5,037,901 documents indexed. Steem is doing really well with SEO, posts are popping up on #Google.
And this is exactly why I love this community! Thanks @rescueranjazz for sharing asksteem.com with us. I didn't even know this existed. Perhaps it will replace the Google Search function that's already in the site here. Anyways, that's really cool and I appreciate you bringing that to our attention!
Perhaps it will replace the Google search function in a matter of time. I love the free flow of information on the site myself. The #steem atmosphere is really refreshing. I am glad I can contribute.
Oh boy...He mentioned Empower Network :) But wow, what influence they had directly from those blogs....
I've been building businesses online for almost 2 decades now and still haven't ever figured out SEO....Catering to Google has never been my game plan. Mostly because I'm not that smart to try to figure SEO out LOL
Just create content, add value and people will pick it up :)
Keep crushing it sir....Stick it to the man! Love it lol
Well, I am strictly a blogger (I haven't made a video yet) and have utterly no SEO based decisions in my blog. That said, I have been in the SEO wars and some of the things that make good SEO showings also make good sense when blogging on Steemit. I am a Google+ certified author which probably does as much as all the purposeful SEO work. I am really hoping that Steemit is going to make it worth my while to not have to play the Google game.
So. Thanks for another great video, another great post. I really do appreciate all you do here....
Hey @bigtom13, yeah I also used to play the SEO games with Google. It seemed like every 6 months they were completely changing their algorithm making it harder to compete. Luckily with Steemit we have our own built-in community here and basically social media built-in as well. So I doubt SEO will ever play a big part on here... although I know some Steemians are really on top of their SEO game.
Remember they gave their algorithm changes names? I remember Panda that killed keyword farming (a very, very good thing) and hummingbird. There were several.
I don't miss that crap at all.
I'm beginning to think you're never going to run out of topics to cover...this stuff is so complicated! in 11 minutes I went from not knowing much at all about SEO, to worrying about it extremely, to not much again by the end of your video. btw I like your new focus on 11 minute videos. not that the 45 minutes ones were not informative, but its not for nothing that research shows that the optimal podcast length is 20-25 min and the optimal video length is 10-15 min. best bang for your buck. Keep it coming!
Thanks @rmorel for the feedback. And trust me I prefer the shorter videos lol. :) Some topics are a little deeper than others so obviously require a little more explaining but I prefer not to drag things out if I don't need to. And you're right, there's almost an endless supply of topics to cover here on Steemit. Tomorrow is gonna be a good one! #cliffhanger