Steemit has HUGE Seo potential ... the thing is, all content is auto-marked with the canonical tag, so by copy pasting a story, google will see two versions of the same content both claiming to be canonical ... I think Steemit is more popular than ZH, but the article appears at ZH first ... not sure how google would work it out.
General backlinks from original content to other original content are awesome though! Steem is an authority site for a ton of topics and way up there in global rankings.
Thanks for explaining that @belluth.
Based upon what you wrote, he most likely isnt helping out zerohedge at all since google might actually penalize duplicate content.
I never really understood what @jerrybanfield was talking about in one of his videos that posting on steemit helps peoples blogs until I started seeing how highly ranked this site is.
I would image blogger and wordpress are up there also but I could be wrong.
No worries. SEO is like Dark Wizardry, it's hard to know exactly what google is doing and you ask one guy and he'll give you one answer and you ask another specialist and he'll give you another. They both only want to work 3 days a fortnight and take home 160K too!
I don't think google would penalise either site as such, but the "link juice" would go to one or the other. I imagine google is smart enough to work out where the article appeared first, but you never know.
I'm not familiar with blogger, but if it's like wordpress, it's hard to compare to Steemit. Steemit is more like medium. Here's a good article on SEO value of Medium vs the very limited value of social platforms like Linkedin, Twitter etc.
I think depending on how much text was changed most of the article would show to have appeared elsewhere than on ZeroHedge. About half of Zerohedge content is 1:1 repost.
I think sometime It's better to do 1:1 repost than to add very little commentary as it could confuse the source of the commentary for the author or the main article.
Yeah lots of their stuff is just blockquotes from bloomberg or reuters with spin added
ZeroHedge.com must be about an order of magnitude more popular than all of Steemit.com
You're right ... I swear Steemit was #1000ish just a couple months ago ... but must of pulled that out of my ass. Ranking has dropped according to this, but doubt it fell that far, that quickly.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/zerohedge.com?competitors=steemit.com