Steemit SEO Casestudy - Rethinking My Strategy While Moving Forward
Introduction
The big picture idea of this project is to build a blog that ranks for keywords, has high page authority and that becomes a great source of backlinks for our clients.
Change of Strategy - More Internal Links and Authoritative Content
One thing that I am getting painfully aware of is that it is so easy to forget the basics of SEO.
One thing that I forgot to take into account is to create a series of posts that I want to rank for...call them "authoritative" content that answer specific questions. That content is usually much longer when it comes to word count, rich in h1,h2,h3, bold italic, bullet points , etc.
**From there whenever I write other pieces of content, I can keep referring my articles to one another. **
For example, today I published How to Get to Ucluelet - By Land, By Air and By Sea...Your Choice!. I know that I will often refer to this in my future articles...so why linking to my own article rather than someone else's?
SEO Benefits of Internal Links
Internal Links are hyperlinks that point at (target) the same domain as the domain that the link exists on (source). In layman's terms, an internal link is one that points to another page on the same website.
The ideal internal link structure would look something like this:
![link-pyramid.png](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://steemitimages.com/DQmQS3FsS6J9vMDP5RZ9eKd4rkAiMxiXnmm7bkMwNDJK8j6/link-pyramid.png)
So I am creating a series of top tier blogposts that will be "the big cheese" of my account. Then whenever I can cover a specific aspect of one of those, then I will refer within it aspects of that top tier article.
Example:
A Top Tier article for @ucluelet could be: 88 Things to do in Ucluelet
I could then create a blogpost the next day about "Whale Watching" that refers back to the "Things to do in Ucluelet" page...and so on and so forth.
Conclusion
Learn, Do & Repeat.
Nice write up @cryptoctopus. Internal linking is definitely vauluable for any sites SEO, but it is only beneficial if your website has native authority. If not, you will still need authoritative back links from niche sites.
As a content writer and manager for an SEO agency, I totally agree with your basic premise...create internal links.
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Solid strategy to be used n the near future. Thanks for sharing, Namaste :)
This is more than obvious... The thing with steemit is that posts gets "old", and people don't want to link older than 7 days posts...
agreed. The people who only focus on the value of a post by it's payout are shortsighted. :-)
Indeed, the search engine optimization that steemit offers is huge!... I for one have to study a lot more about SEO, but i have been amazed by all steemit posts showing up first on google search, there is a lot of value there, other than the payouts...
Thats how I got here. I kept Googling things that had the best answers on this odd looking steemit sight. Then when I saw Jerry Banfield start to shout at me in an add that I would normally ignore, I did a double take because it was the same new layout that had kept popping up in my Googling. I see a lot on here about how to help this site grow, but I believe this would be the most helpful. After all, it got me here and I generally dont participate in this sort of thing.
Yep, this have the potential to bring a lot of people that usually wont do traditional social media...
Steemit also has a lot of page authority with the search engines and it should only grow over time. I was going to see if I could find the post I read that talked about that but it was yours @cryptoctopus --- SEO Case Study - Domain Authority & Page Authority
Maybe they just have Steemit Miopic Delayed Gratificaton Impulse Control syndrome
Maybe they just have steemtigmatism
I think SEO on Steemit is a virtually untapped gold mine at this point. I've made several posts about adding anchor text/image links and alt tags for images and I've seen a few others who have begun to spread the word.
I can give links to the posts if you like (they're already past their payouts) but I didn't want to spam your comments with my links.
Steemit is a gold mine. It will explode when they make it as an app.
if your links is in the same context, I don't have any issues with it :-)
I still like to get permission before I drop links:
Anchor Text & Image Links
&
Alt Tags for Images In Steemit Posts
I hope people can find them useful.
So did you do any keyword research to determine what to write for these "authoritative" content pieces or did you already have an idea of what you wanted there?
oh yes. I know the top keywords via google keyword planner and just knowing the tourist mindset.
Nice. That makes sense. I'm really enjoying this series.
Retrospective reasoning in this outlook for applying to a strategy plan.
Excellent and brilliant!
Thank you for your advice into what I should be doing as well.
Another great post explaining some SEO. Thanks for sharing your HQ content.
Interesting strategy,
Thanks for sharing