You know what? I don't know what kind of SEO Steemit does but I think writing curated articles might help with traffic from Google itself rather than just the Steemit Community.
For example, one of my most-read articles on Medium is "7 TED Talks that Reveal What Nobody Told You About Happiness, Success and Creativity".
That one has over 3K views. The stats show that 2,927 come from Google. Only 16 come from Facebook. And only 19 comes from the Medium community itself.
Speaking of which: does Steem provides these kinds of stats? That would be a good improvement to their platform because it would help us with our traffic strategy.
Anyways, thank you as always for a clear articulate article.
Steemit is reputed to have excellent SEO. It just takes time for an article to make it into the index, as always. I don't know if anyone has a project to collect stats on traffic sources. Possibly.