Stuck at 2100 ranking : how we can push steemit into the top 2000 on Alexa
Over the past six months steemit.com has been moving steadily and healthily up the global website traffic rankings on Alexa.
It started its upward trend in March at a ranking of around 19000.
Then it started to climb and climb and climb.
Five months ago it had reached #16522.
Then just two months later it was on the verge of breaking into the 5000 most visited sites in the world.
By 7 July it had broken through to #4540.
Early August saw steemit make it into the top 3000 sites.
Then it continued to head onwards toward a top 2000 position peaking at around #2100 three weeks ago.
Since then it has flatlined and has even begun to drop back a little to position 2125.
I guess the traffic ranking for the site is driven primarily by two factors. Firstly how many active users are on the steemit. Secondly how many steemit pages are being found, and visited, via external sources - particularly Google and Facebook?
Maybe the Alexa ranking of steemit doesn't matter - it is only a number after all.
But anything that demonstrates growth in the platform must be a good thing.
Wouldn't it be good to be able to say steemit is in the top 2000 sites in the world - even better the top 1000.
How can we help get steemit into the top 2000
What can we all do to help steemit pick up its ranking growth again and break through to the top 2000?
Basically we want to get more people reading more pages on steemit.
It's not rocket science 😊
Recruiting more users to steemit is one part of that - as long as they stay and become active users.
User numbers are increasing day by day. And active users are increasing too which is encouraging.
However what is not so good is that, according to the statistics posted by @arcange, the daily numbers of posts has remained at just under 20,000 since the middle of June.
That is still almost 20,000 pages of extra content being added to the site everyday.
What is not known is how much of that is 'quality content' that Google will like to index well, and that social media users will want to share and view.
I suspect a good proportion of the daily output of posts is rather 'low level' content.
Taking a closer look I will upgrade my "suspect a good proportion" to definitely a lot!
Here are a few of the examples of the posts coming in the New feed just as I type :
When the dog it's cooler than you! - one line and a meme pic
Thank You, Thank You, my best friend - one pic with a few lines of text on it
Amazing life hacks for fun - title only and embedded YouTube
Amazing life hack!!! - title only and embedded YouTube
Crispy finely chopped - static image only, nothing else
And this one is the real cracker - particularly as my mother was Welsh.
- Mae'r tanwydd mawr yn llai. Sopelka wedi'u torri'n fyr agglu - IT IS IN WELSH - but just a nonsense strings of words!
Just in case you wanted a sample of what this amazing post says....
"The big fuel is smaller. Sopelka briefly chopped bimetal mastoidite agglutinin. Kalevshik potashny sulfid. Fleksura abazin is reverting a droplet rutter drop down drop-down proletarian modernist blow finishing off harponion idol protect the tabloid conquered organizer..."
I digress - but I couldn't resist highlighting that pile of steeming...
Clearly this sort of content is not going to make steemit go boom-boom in the Google search rankings.
We need quality content for that. @jerrybanfield told us all about what is needed for this in one of his posts :
@infobunny tells more in his post Steemit SEO Guide - How to rank on Google.
Good content works for the search engines.
For example a friend of mine, @halcyondaze, from the HomesteadSlackers group posted this article about his visit to Frinklepod Farm in Maine only 3 days ago, yet it is already ranking at #11 on Google for the search term "Frinklepod Farm in Maine" :
What must we do?
It is simple really. To help get steemit.com into Alexa's top 2000, and beyond, we've got to...
- cut the crap, write good content and tell everyone we know about it.
If you found this post useful or interesting please do upvote, resteem and follow. Thank you.
You might also be interested in some of my other posts :
Cooking with Steem - recipe books for promoting steemit : ready to move forward
Pennsif's Progress - The Days are Numbered // Day 904 : Flowers for bees, tins for us
My Steemit Promotional Ideas : SteemTowns, Cooking with Steem, Recruitment Reward Scheme : an update
SteemTowns - connecting the virtual with the reality - would it be possible?
[header graphic by @pennsif // Alexa ranking graph form alexa.com]
Honestly, 18 months and cracking top 5k Alexa is huge - let's not get overzealous ;)
Always aim for the moon. If we don't quite make it there we should at least land on the top of the mountain.
Thanks for bringing up the issue of content @pennsif. When I first started out on steemit, I spent a good few days just looking and reading other's posts, to get an impression on the type of content is considered "quality". In previous blogs my posts were between 1000 and 2000 words long. Here, I decided to adopt shorter and more frequent posts. Not quite one-liners (though making good memes is an art in itself) but under thousand words. My recent ones however have all exceeded that limit, and the result can be seen: less visitors. So once again I'm thinking of reducing my lengthy articles, and maybe trying my luck with some memes... Hopefully quality ones, not the crap ones that look like they were thrown together in a haste, or the string of nonsense words in some exotic language. I guess I could do a Hungarian version of that, but then again, there are so many cooler things one can do.
Article length is something that gives me mixed emotions here on steemit.
On the one hand we are told that steemit values well written, fully researched, in depth articles. But on the other hand we can see many examples of people getting just as big rewards with very short posts of a few lines and a couple of photos.
Unless the payout period is lengthened to say one year to reward long articles that have a long term usefulness, the direction of travel will be towards the short, quick hit article. But that will just head steemit towards becoming just another Facebook look a like.
The effort v reward equation does have to kick in.
Heck this reply is probably longer than half the new posts that have gone out while I've been typing it 😊
The frustrating thing is that those nonsense post often get better responses than long thoughtful articles.
An interesting read 5 months. The growth is remarkable - we have just broken into the Top 1,000 and Steemit is still swamped rubbish posts.