RE: LeoFinance Users and Ad Revenue Hit All Time Highs
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Great news.
Although in terms of rewarding based on posts which rank on Google, i don't get how that's going to work long term - doesn't it take a while for a page to get ranked on Google, much longer than the 7 day pay-out window?
I should really pay more attention to SEO myself.
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It's more of a guess game. Have a look at beehivetrader posts for example. And then mine. Which one are gonna rank better? 🤣
Hmm, is there a right answer or is that one open to interpretation?
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Yes. Depending on what you say you will earn a life time leo vote or a lifetime leo flag🤪🤪🤪
Think of it more as rewarding posts that feature good SEO fundamentals.
So properly targeting a keyword, headings and subheadings, content over 300 words etc etc.
While it might not rank instantly, you can easily tell what's going to do well longer term.
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Yes fair point!
SEO is a horrible game to have to play, second guessing the Google black box.
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Yes and no, if a website is popular enough, new posts will get indexed by google within minutes of posting. The problem is, not even hive.blog is big enough to have hit that threshold yet.
High ranking on search engines will bring in new users though, so that's a benefit regardless. However, it may be worth having a way for posts to get multiple payouts if there's sudden spikes in traffic to a post long after it was posted. This will incentivise people to write higher quality posts with long term re-share value.
Also are we not SEO penalised by the slugs here? I mean the first word being leofinance rather than finance for example?
And also doesn't a site do better if it's very focused, where there's decentralisation that's unlikely to be the case!
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Not that much for that reason, but Astrology being far more popular means that searching "leo finance" on Google will put LeoFinance on page 5.
DuckDuckGo/Bing/Yahoo list it on page 2. Baidu lists it as the first result and so does Yandex.
Now, if you're logged in to Google, they may list it much higher for yourself, as they know you're interested in cryptocurrency related sites.
A large reason why LeoFinance doesn't rank higher is likely due to Hive Condenser's poor accessibility. The new beta interface scores much higher in this aspect.
Websites that do not function without JavaScript are heavily penalised and may not be indexed at all, additionally websites that are not navigable by keyboard and screen reader are also penalised.
The current LeoFinance UI, based on Hive Condenser, is difficult to navigate by keyboard and has some information missing when JavaScript isn't available. The new beta UI has no visible breakage when JavaScript is off and all important information is visible.
Other aspects of the new UI have optimisations as well. Looks like they've got someone who knows what they're doing working on the design.
No, I know of several projects with far more decentralisation that index much better than Hive/Steem do, it comes down to poor interface design on the part of Hive Condenser and especially PeakD.
PeakD is entire inaccessable to traditional search indexing as no static pages are generated. Google has some partial support for sites that require JavaScript but issues a very heavy penalty for it, no other indexers support this.PeakD uses the old method of being bot-friendly, where it serves a simplified static page to a predefined list of known bots, this method is penalised as it's considered obsolete and can also lead to not being indexed on lesser known bots. It's not as bad as being completely unindexable though.Aside from the new UI, a good way to boost seareh rankings would be having posts involving LeoFinance reach the first page of Reddit. What happens on Reddit has quite a big impact on Google search results, to a much greater degree than Twitter. In fact, Twitter is probably one of the worst places to promote a new platform as it's built to be an attention hole to a degree only rivalved by YouTube and Facebook.
Getting to the front page of Reddit and having some major publication talk about the platform would provide a massive increase in new users.
Note: When I'm referring to a penalty here, I'm talking about an algorithmic penalty and not a manual review penalty.