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RE: Steemit SEO Casestudy Day 4- Waiting For Automation? (And A Question)
That is actually a great response and I am very curious about what you will find. $3 of upvote for you! ;-)
You are probably right when it comes to followers. For comments, I am really wondering if commenting on related topics that are connected to my niche would have an effect...especially high quality comments that create engagement (like yours) where people would actually click through to my account or article I refer to.
Heh thanks. I've been thinking of posting my findings so far as we've tried the community transfer through several platforms now, although it's been a few years since the last attempt. I'll gather my thoughts on it and make the post later if you want to watch my feed.
So far my take on the high quality comments is the Steemit community, through the various levels of quality and engagement desire of posters, inadvertently discourages discussion in comments. Prior to registering I spoke to a buddy who's been here much longer than I. I asked him about discussion in comments as a potential replacement to the old message board system (since our site orbits around message board front/databases). His response was that due to the number of spam/shit comments and lack of reciprocal engagement by some OPs to insightful/long comments, commenting isn't what it can potentially be. The latter I'd see as particularly problematic as it discourages commenting and thereby discourages the insertion of links as references and so forth. If I wrote you my War and Peace essay and you replied "thanks for your comment" I wouldn't bother commenting again.
There's also a question of etiquette which you may set me straight on. If I reply to your comment but a link to my own post is included, I assume I may get flagged by someone who is not necessarily yourself who disagrees with comment linking. I've noticed that Steemit etiquette is a highly subjective matter. While linking my own post in a comment is internal linking, the prevalence of this practice in facilitation of an indepth discussion would also naturally lead to a prevalence in linking outside sources, thus improving the SEO value.
I think that a lot of those issues can be solved. For example, chainbb is a message board interface built on top of steem by @jesta (check out chainbb here). It is possible to get rid of "bot" comment by disqualifying the custom json of it's source.
The goal is this format is for people to be able to host their own forum on their own domain and have full control over it...just like phpbb. I think that might just be what you are looking for.
When it comes to linking in the comment section, I think it is just a matter of relevance. For example, just above, I shared a link that is helpful and add to the discussion. There is no reason for anyone to flag that.
Looking into it. I was not aware that Jesta build a message board, only the stats service. This may and may not work for our purposes. It would depend on the level of control and the potential for censorship (flagging). Can't say much until I really explore what Jesta made so I'll stfu for now.
Finally got my post up, you can check it out here. Tried to not make it a wall of text.
Talk with him on steemit.chat :-) im Ill look into your post