RE: HIVE Had Its Worst* Year in 2023 - Here is How LeoAds + SEO Can Help
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Oh, you finally saw (after a whole month) my "tiny" comment! 😄
However, thank you for the reply!
I agree with you...
The goal should be to grow enough of a userbase that would come and use HIVE DAPPs directly without going through Google or any other search engine.
But, in that case, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is useless, and we don't need it.
When it comes to...
We have had an FAQ since 2017. I read this page when I joined in 2017. I don't know how old it is.
Well, in 2017, Hive didn't exist! It was created at the beginning of 2020, and in a couple of days, it will celebrate its fourth birthday.
So, if we want to be completely honest, when you joined in 2017, you were actually joining Steemit (where you are still active, as far as I can see), and, in fact, you were reading Steemit FAQ, the same as I did in 2016 when I joined.
Furthermore, and when it comes to Hive FAQ, it's, unfortunately, just more or less copied & pasted Steemit FAQ, with some necessary changes, adjustments, and cosmetics. As such, the same as the whole Hive blockchain, it would also be 4 years old in a couple of days and full of outdated and non-valid, or even never applicable to Hive data and info, still with some links to 8 years-old Steemit posts that were just republished on Hive.
But even that, it's not the main issue.
If you take a look at account creation data just for the last two years (2022 and 2023), you'll see that those who arrived by landing first on Hive Blog are just a couple of accounts. That pushes the Hive Blog interface to the bottom of the onboarding list.
So, the main issue is that the vast majority of newcomers wouldn't find even that 8-year-old Steemit FAQ reshaped to be a Hive FAQ.
Regarding...
We also have https://docs.inleo.io with a lot of information.
I think you answer that one by yourself.
The problem is that these resources are not prominently featured across all front ends.
In other words, yes, we have Docs on InLeo with a lot of information, but for an average newcomer Joe who landed first on InLeo (the same as on many other interfaces) it actually doesn't exist as there is no link, and no info about it.
I entirely agree with you when you said that...
Support is mostly on Discord (unfortunately) and resources on the inner workings of HIVE are not easy to find...
Besides, regarding Discord, aside from the fact that it's a separate service from the Hive blockchain, there is also another issue. For instance, where on InLeo would you find a link to their Discord server? - You wouldn't! There isn't!
So, even if our average newcomer Joe is very lucky (still has access to his/her account, as they haven't change the keys yet), and someone tells him/her that some support might be found on Discord; how he/she is going to find that server if the helping person doesn't have an invite link??? - He/she wouldn't find it!
Why? - Because, if he/she goes to Discord and tries to search for InLeo official server, it's not listed among discoverable servers! He/she may go to Discord's "Explore Discoverable Servers" and there, with whatever keyword(s) try to search and find that community, it would be unsuccessful!
When it comes to...
Creating an educational series on these things could go a long way to help new users.
There are tons of educational series already being written, but unfortunately, they are not easy to find, either through search engines or even less through local searches (somewhat available on some interfaces).
To conclude...
People get lost on the easiest platforms and services, which have easy-to-find, read, and understand instructions that are strict and to the point. Expecting that an average Joe (more or less lazy and superficial) would be interested, persistent, and dedicated enough to find a way and survive in this "jungle" (as it is now), seems quite unlikely and very unrealistic to me.
And last but not least...
Thank you for upvoting my comment, although it was in vain. - Why in vain? - My comment was already a month old when you upvoted it, and articles and comments older than 7 days don't get the reward when upvoted after that. I know you know that!
I assume you were counting on InLeo's "evergreen." - Well, here is the thing, your article wasn't published using the InLeo interface, and therefore, you may forget "evergreen."
In other words, you reduced your voting power anyway (and for nothing) while I didn't gain anything. 😁
Did you know about that InLeo's "evergreen" trick?!
SEO may not be a good way to increase HIVE userbase now due to the lack of resources to help new users handle this "jungle". At the very least it will help to bring more readers to HIVE. If SEO did not work, there will not be billions of dollars invested in it. At the time @leofinance is the only project that has created a method to directly benefit from having readers.
Getting users interested in one game and allowing them to learn about HIVE over the course of few years as could be an effective method. I know that gamers can be very persistent individuals that do a lot of research and learn about complex systems when they are interested in a game or any other technology. They are a small niche; but could be the best type of users to onboard at the moment.
The age of HIVE is not a very simple matter. My account is shown to be around since 2017 no matter what front end or block explorer you use. There are content and transaction histories dating back to 2016. HIVE has more active users, bigger marketcap and more developer activity than STEEM. HIVE is the dominant fork. BLURT on the other hand reset everything except account balances when they forked. They are close to reaching their 4th birthday. The answer of HIVE's age is a more nuanced one.
I publish all my long form articles through InLeo. I don't know if they consider where comments are published when considering Leo Ads payouts.
It's either not a very complex one. When devs built the fundamental structure of the Hive blockchain to launch it as it is, they needed an interface. The first and only interface at the very beginning was hive.blog, and it's publically available data that this domain was registered on March 11, 2020.
So, the Hive age doesn't seem very complicated to me.
If, on the other hand, you would like to count the age of the Hive blockchain by the date when it was accepted on CoinMarketCap (as the world's most-referenced price-tracking website for crypto-assets) where the HIVE coin was listed first, then the date is March 27, 2020.
So, as you may see, however you turn it around, the age of the Hive is calculated from March 2020.
LOL 😂 - I would really love it if you could show me those blocks containing content and/or transactions that your account (this one) was able to produce even before its creation.
Of course! A block explorer is the highest authority on the age of a blockchain as it directly deal with the blocks that make up the blockchain.
Don't forget that https://hive.blog itself show that I have joined in 2017 and over 250K accounts that are even older. These are simple obvious facts.