These people are promoting steem every day just by using steempress as people need a steem account to engage on the blogs.

Good point. I used to use Steempress but I think the plugin clashed with another one on my site, so I disabled them both. I should give it another look.

Also, I think I haven't been bothered with trying to rank in Google simply because, like many others, I wasn't playing the Google Juice game like I used to with my old blogs. I think we all got a bit anti-Google because of Adsense and the "centralised" platforms. But truth be told, we do need to show up on Google to be visible.