Preface
For those who don't know, I'm writing a series of article about my journey to build up the SEO of an account called @ucluelet. Here is my notes on what I am learning in the process.
Steemit Permalinks
Whenever we write an article, steemit.com takes the title of the article to create a permalink when the article is published. Now the issue with that is that there are a lot of stop words (a, the, or, etc.) . The search engine tends, a least in the past, to not like such stop words.
Also, we have a situation where the title is so long that it is hard for the search engine to know what the article is about.
The SEO Permalinks of My Authoritative Content
As mentioned in my previous article: Rethinking My Strategy While Moving Forward, I am working on building a smart way to go about developing my content. Part of it is creating top tier content that I will keep linking to again and again in my future articles.
Today, I wrote an article about understanding the Ucluelet real estate market. I wanted the permalink like this: https://steemit.com/ucluelet/@ucluelet/ucluelet-real-estate
But I didn't want to have the lame headline "Ucluelet Real Estate" on the search engine. So what I did is publish the article with "Ucluelet Real Estate" as the title and then go back afterward and edit it to get a better headline: "Understanding the Ucluelet Real Estate Market".
Conclusion
Small things like that make a difference over time.
I am doing the same thing when creating pages on blogger.com whether for a web 2.0 or for an actual site. Funny what we do to overcome limits that certain platforms pose to us :)
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Thank you for sharing this tip. I have been wandering how to make the permalink titles short and sweet but the title a little longer. I also have started adding a link to other content I write to help with link building. Do you suggest submitting URL to search engines or blog pings? Thanks in advance.
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Great article and SEO is always important!
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Awesome strategy I may start doing that! The limitation is with my auto posting to Twitter and Facebook however it is posted first might be how it goes out!
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Nice post. Will check out your others now. Thanks for sharing.
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This is such a great tip, thank you for sharing.
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Thanx alot for sharing this secret tip of yours with us. It will help other users to grow as well. Hoping for a great info. Ahead also. @cryptoctopus
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Thank you for this very good tip! I was just yesterday on google and tried to find some of my posts it was not easy if I don't write the exact line. So thanks again and I will do as you say in this post :)
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Exactly @ cryptoctopus im also trying it
Gr8 work done
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Thanks for sharing this awesome tip :)
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So wait if you publish with a "lame" title and then go back and edit the post, the link keeps the same title? That great to know!
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I've tended to ignore the "stop" words when working in a local market and concentrate on natural sounding content. If you're trying to rank for something in highly competitive keywords you have to use every trick in the book but you can get some pretty impressive results with just the basics when you're only competing with other local businesses.
I think my wife's law practice website still ranks on the first page for 4 or 5 of the top keywords in her practice area, if not at the top spot. And I haven't touched it in about 3 or 4 years. I just followed what Google recommended when we set it up and created the kind of content they asked for.
Once I figure out a legit way to send links to her site, it'll be untouchable.
Steemit holds huge potential even just doing the basics of SEO simply because very few people do anything.
And if you understand how to write compelling copy, the sky's the limit.
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Interesting, haven't thought of this. Have you tested this concept?
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it works :-)
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This is definitely good to know and changes how I'll be handling posting going forward. Ironically, I just posted regarding SEO but missed the chance.
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What exactly are you doing for the SEO part? Is it SEO to serve for an external site, or are you doing external SEO to get more exposure fr your blog?
I would assume it's using the link-juice of Steemit to boost another domain?
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It's a great Tip, Thaks for Sharing.
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Excellent! If we had 20 top authors doing this regularly and SEOptimizing their post content, it could really bring in some free traffic to their blogs and raise Steemit in the search rankings. I've done it a couple of times and it's time-consuming, but I get a steady trickle of users to my blog every day. Even on non-SEO posts, I try to incorporate some of the strategies suggested by @princewahaj in his SEO series.
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As a SEO for many years one of the things i first noticed was the potential for generating high ranking backlinks...
Running a basic AHrefs report Steemit is a worls class resource. Only thing left to discover is if the links are DO follow or not.
Either way, this is an easy to implement resource.
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They become dofollow once your article had a certain amount of rshare in votes (to prevent spam)
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Awesome... thanks for sharing the results.
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Hi @cryptoctopus,
Congratulations! You have been chosen to appear on another amazing edition of "Who to Follow Daily". Thank you for adding so much value to the Steemit community. Steem on!
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You smart man! :) I was reading along thinking, "yeah and... " "how you gonna solve both" but you have a workaround that is genius! It would be cool if there was a permalink edit option on the editor or it auto stripped stop words and had a max length perhaps too!
Thanks for the tip. Here is one that I have telling people to speed up the loading page of peoples Steemit posts.
If using one image or multiple to pick the right size or resize down and run through tinypng.com to losslessly compress. I have reduced images as much as 80% with that tool.
Cheers! :)
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I'm glad I came across your post, @cryptoctopus.
I just joined Steemit a month ago but I've already been thinking about implementing an seo strategy myself. I've always been interesting in seo since meeting my fiance, an Seo specialist and online marketer about 7 years ago. I have learned the basics of seo and used them in my work and blogs.
Being familiar with Google keywords planner, and all the fun you can have with that, I've been curious to know what people are searching for on Steemit. Is there a way to see what keywords people are searching for on Steemit?
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GENIAL...i didn't know about permalink...is permalink like a permanent signature of that post? I mean even if you re edit it a 100 times it won't try to re-set the original tag?
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Exact. The title tag is permanent.
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I like you :)
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Really interesting reading these posts @cryptoctopus. I thought that if you edit the title of a post after you have published it then it will disrupt the SEO results because it is like breaking a link? Obviously not as severe as breaking a link but like a disruption. My wife Sabrina usually does the SEO stuff for our business but I am trying to learn more about it myself
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The permalink, once the article is published won't change when you change the title :-)
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Thanks for this article cryptoctopus. extremely helpful information. I do have a tendency for longer titles. You rock!!!
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The SEO stuff is pretty hard for me to understand for some reason. I just need to really learn about it so that it becomes natural.
Appreciate you sharing valuable knowledge and experience.
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