‼️ IMPORTANT: Community Names and 1st Hashtag - steemit.com SEO
Another important update to steemit.com has happened, which will should have a significant impact upon Steemit's Search Ranking.
It's a change that will go (has gone) unnoticed to most users but with a few tweaks to how people work, could provide a huge boost to Steemit's visibility on search engines.
1. Community Names
The community name will now appear in the URL. So if you write a post in The World of Sports, your post will contain 'the-world-of-sports' in the URL.
Why is this important?
The URL forms an important part of Google's search algorithm. If a user searches for "Sports" and we have lots of unique, good quality content in "The World of Sports", then Steemit's results are more likely to appear.
This also highlights the importance of posting in appropriate communities. Writing about Sport in "The World of Sports", will give Steemit a better search ranking than if you post it in any other community.
2. 1st Hashtag
Some communities are made up of characters that are not ASCII friendly so where this is the case, the URL will now use the first hashtag.
We've long advised that users use appropriate hashtags, but a recent review of the 1st hashtag being used, across a small sample of posts suggested that over 70% of posts have an "irrelevant" 1st tag.
Whilst you might feel that # club5050 is the most important thing for your upvotes, https://steemit.com/club5050/.... this provides absolutely no benefit to Steemit's ranking.
So please - spread the word. If your community has a meaningless name, unrelated to the content being shared (😜), think about making it more meaningful so that all content on Steemit becomes more SEO friendly.
This should all mean that in time, we'll start to see more recent content appear in search results.
Greetings friend @the-gorilla
I think this update is very important, let's hope that with this more references to Steemit content appear as a result of any search.
Thanks for the excellent work.
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🤞 It would be great if we could get a bit more visibility.
Very good measure, thanks for your work!
Bug? Phenomenon?
When you open an article via SteemWorld, the encrypted name remains.
SW:
Feed:
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The update doesn't automatically change the URL to the more friendly one - so links from external sites could be different (both will work as normal).
What it does quietly do in the background though, is tell (Search Engines) Google that:
https://steemit.com/steemit-feedback/@the-gorilla/important-community-names-and-1st-hashtag-steemit-com-seo
should be given priority over:
https://steemit.com/whatever-goes-here/@the-gorilla/important-community-names-and-1st-hashtag-steemit-com-seo
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Ah, okay, I understand.
This is how we've always done things with "hidden" links that apply to all interfaces, right?
Like this
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Oh, that's interesting (and annoying). The canonical link is correct but the redirect includes the community ID instead of the community name. I'll have to do something about that.
I'm glad I was able to help and compensate for your DV... 😉
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It looks like they do their downvoting manually - how funny's that??
That means that they have to think about me every single day and how I've completely ruined their reward farming 🤣🤣
Love it. Thank you for this.
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You're welcome - yours was one of the "Use a good 1st hashtag" communities 🙂
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That was my first thought after reading this update.
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Yours was one of the communities that my initial implementation didn't work on and I had to work out why! 🙂
Saludos amigo es una información valiosa hay que hacer el uso correcto de los Hashtag, para que la publicación tenga un alcance más amplio, gracias por compartir la información.
Exitos
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Greetings from London! Glad to see you around here. Thanks for the update. I will shuffle the hashtags around next time I post 📝
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How's life in London treating you these days?
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Still surprising me with all the art and numerous places to eat! Hope all is well on your end in Eastbourne too 🌊
Always beautiful down here 🙂
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East west by the sea’s the best. I’ll visit Eastbourne in May again 🌊🐑 I love the Seven Sisters and the walks in that area.
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Oh, how lovely. You'll have to let me know when and then I can amuse myself by walking past you and saying "hello" 😆 And if you ask "are you the-gorilla", I'll look at you like you're mad 🤣
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😆 Only if you’re wearing a gorilla 🦍 outfit!
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I wouldn't want to give away my anonymity 😆 Knowing you - you'd have your camera at the ready and then everybody would see me.
This is pretty nice work you did dude.😋
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Thanks 👍
I'm asking out of curiosity. Does SEO algorithm is AI generated. Thank you for the valuable post.
I don't quite understand the question... are you asking how Google treats AI generated content?
Sorry for the inconvenience. Thank you for the feedback.
Please, ask again. The question probably got confused in translation.
I wanted to know AI role in SEO if any.
According to Google:
It goes on to say:
So it appears that Google doesn't penalise AI generated content, so long as it's accurate and reliable.
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Thank you again for the detailed information with clarification.
Your dog😡