Poorly Managed Tribes Kills LeoFinance and Hive's Rankings
Poorly Managed Tribes Kills LeoFinance and Hive's Rankings
As a newly launched platform, you can imagine the number of tools I have to leverage to ease the process of building a potential industry-level platform, this is something I found myself putting in every minute I can to push in developments from the contents to the application side of things. While it hasn't been easy, I can also say it has been fun.
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We've had a slow journey so far, mostly because much of my time was put into optimizing the site for a great user experience. You can help by taking a tour through as many pages as possible and dropping a review.
So, having my focus on creating what feels good to the eyes means having less time for content. I even recently employed a content creator who turned out to be a heavy paraphraser, and the contract had to be terminated yesterday.
That said, the above image isn't the site's overall traffic, pageviews, or users, rather, it's our search engine performance. As a new platform, the best bet for growth is to get these tools to love your site's content and so far, making that much impression with less content shows that we are actually on track.
Our best performing article has been "What is Hive Blog" which happens to rank 2nd on search results to my surprise, I'm curious to know if this is a worldwide ranking or subject to my GEO location, so if you can quickly punch in "What is Hive Blog" on Google and see if "icoverage" pops up, that would be great to help me understand how things are really going and where to push the energy.
We've made several contents about Hive, ranging from "What LeoFinance Is", "What is Hive Blockchain" as a technology, and recently, a report was covered on "LeoFinance Developments."
You can check them out
This is one area we want to put some energy into because icoverage.io aims to report and create coverages that matter, not biased but actually putting up what people need to read about regardless if the ecosystem or project is famous or has heavy VC funding.
Soon we will start promoting "Hive Users"
How?
That depends on your content, yes! So this is somewhat encourages Hive users to create good content(finance and crypto-related though) to stand a chance of gaining more publicity.
How it will work is:
Picture how each time you visit these new platforms and stumble on "Sam Says cryptocurrency regulation can be achieved" typr of article or Elon musk said this and that.
This is often a coverage of a silly tweet or thread made on Twitter, so what if we replace that with your name? And your topic?
Like "Taskmaster says Hive is geared for mass adoption following Ragnarok release"
Get it? We will create reports over quality community inputs via comments and posts, both critics, and praises inclusive so you can imagine the backlines that will follow this for "referential" purposes.
So now, what is killing LeoFinance and Hive's Rankings?
After having an interesting conversation with a fellow leo user over LeoFinance ranking, I discovered how Tribes may be killing Hive rankings.
When a user creates a post and inputs links to other posts on Hive or LeoFinance perhaps(even if no links are included by the user but there's always a link like that "posted using leofinance" tag) and then uses other tribe tags to earn more visibility and votes for tokens perhaps, this becomes more expensive for Hive than it is beneficial for the user.
How? Poorly managed tribes have very low domain authorities, so when a user has links sending traffic to other pages on the Hive blockchain, on other frontends, the sites become the "referring domain".
Take for example the Hive Blockchain Link above, if you head on to "palnet.io" the referring domain becomes palnet(that becomes a backlink), not Hive.blog, peakd.com, or leofinance.io, so whichever frontend you're at when you clicked that link becomes the referring domain.
Palnet has a good domain authority by the way.
But for poorly managed frontends that have low developments, users, and all, they are sending "bad backlinks" which kill LeoFinance, Hive, Peakd, and the rest of the healthy frontends.
Remember that they don't necessarily need to have users trigger clicks on these backlinks, search engine bots can find these links and consider it a bad practice for the domain being referred.
How can you help?
As a user, you can start by not tagging these dormant frontends, it hurts you as a Hive user and your content more than you can imagine.
And as an owner of these frontends, you can start reviving your platform or simply shut it down if no developments are intended. I will not mention these tribes but I think it's rather easy to pick them out.
Thank you for your time.
This is interesting. I am fairly new to this kinds of things so I will need to read more about the topic.
Thank you for letting us know. 🙂
You're quite welcomed.
I made a quick Google search and it turned out that you are right - not all backlinks are beneficial.
I just typed what is Hive blog? on the Google search engine and icoverage is the second spot on the results. This article is really informative and I'll try heed the best practices. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for taking out time to do that, and you're welcome.
Hopefully it improves the health of the ecosystem.
I used to be against using other community tags, but changed my mind.
I was finding that due to leofinance.io's weak domain, Google would take foreverrrrr to even index the post.
But by using the tags and generating versions on stronger domains (like palnet) that point their canonicals to leofinance.io, it encouraged Google to index us faster.
Even if they initially indexed another version, Google will often update to the leofinance.io version with just a few internal links on related posts.
Also remember that even if you publish via leofinance.io and don't use any community tags, you still generate ecency, peakd and hive blog versions of your post.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
Those domains are healthy, that's the point.
I always use the same set of community tags in my post.
Do you think I should cut any that are obviously unhealthy and as such, potentially doing more harm than good?
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
Yes, I do think so. I've thought about Hive a lot and I've come to realise that the "abundance" in what we can create has a cost, especially in the current system of how the internet works and who runs it.
The fact that a content immediately has a duplicate the second it is published may contribute to why Hive-based frontends have low search engine traffic.
As for tags specifically, search engines may consider them as "bad backlinks". I don't know how Google actually views these websites but I do know that when majority of backlinks are from unhealthy sites, it can affect its ranking and not to mention that have these links are created matters too.
Google ends up crawling the site sending these links in an attempt to figure if it is actually recommending the content of the referred site as "valuable" or its just bad practices of populating backlinks to the site.
About this, it may be harder than you think, considering the number of posts that is produced daily on Leofinance.io, what many don't know is that Websites using CMS like WordPress automatically get their links forwarded to Google for crawling, I do mine manually because I'm not using WordPress(and there's a limit).
So unless some other way can be followed to make Leofinance.io more relevant to Google, most of the post will be crawled late and may not compete as supposed.
Imagine your previous content gets recreated by higher level domains or literally any, while you wait to be crawled, the chances become slim.
A robots.txt file in each of those ‘minor tribe’ domains would solve this problem.
Maybe the dominant sites like leofinance.io and peakd.com should find a way to compensate ‘minor’ tribes if they actively exclude web crawlers from their front ends via robots.txt. The bigger the tribe’s would-be influence, the bigger the compensation.
Perhaps, that's another way to go about it.