I wonder how google is handling the duplicate content? I write on busy.  I haven't visited steemit in months.  But, with the tribes now we have the same post on many different sites. That can't be good.

One thought is to write beginner tutorials on steemit.  That way when people are looking up "How To's " to help them learn steemit those articles should rank and receive traffic.  

A big reason steemit is falling off the alexa wagon is because no one in their right mind is posting with that clunky old dinosaur. I stopped using steemit about one year ago and do not regret it one bit.

I post on dApps that have beautiful interfaces and pay me with upvotes when I use them.

When I came here 2 years ago, steemit's alexa ranking was one of the selling points. I thought it would help with my weight loss work. This is my original reason for being on social media at all. 

Thanks to the STEEM blockchain, I post on many more niche topics now and have great places set up to do that work. 

I use steempeak and steemworld for admin activities. I post and/or interact with busy, esteem, dPoll, dLike, partiko, dtube, nTopaz, tasteem, steemhunt, travelfeed, 3speak, on and on we go.

STEEM has fantastic dApps and steemit is not one of them. I write minnow tips and the first thing I tell people is to stop posting with steemit if they even are when they get here now. I cannot think of one good thing to say about the place except that they were the pioneer who got us started. Like IBM fell to Apple and Microsoft, steemit will some day only be a memory. It cannot happen soon enough.

Check the alexas for the GOOD dApps. They are not where steemit used to be, but they are rising. We are decentralized, and so each dApp is different.. 

And don't even mention how bad steemit looks to newcomers, I refer nobody from the outside there at all. Check @jaynie's recent post on that topic. On top of looking like a site from 2014, the first impression is dismal in every way. I refer people with steempeak or busy for best results. Others use other dApps, but it will take time to turn this ship.

I agree with you. We should start posting content for life outside steemit

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Saya sangat setuju dengan anda, mengenai kualitas tulisan-tulisan yang ada di steemit. Kebanyakan tulisan-tulisan yang ada kurang memenuhi kelayakan untuk disebut sebagai tulisan yang informatif atau menarik.

Walaupun begitu, itu bukanlah kesalahan sepenuhnya para penggunanya,  akan tetapi steemit telah memberikan kebebasan kepada penggunanya untuk menentukan bentuk tulisan atau karya yang dimuat dalam platform ini.

Sebetulnya untuk menjadikan steemit sebagai sebuah platform blogger bersama, perlu kesadaran para penggunanya agar meningkatkan kualitas tulisan atau karyanya.

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<b>I totally agree with you, regarding the quality of the writings in Steemit. Most of the writings that do not meet the eligibility to be called as informative or interesting writing.

Even so, it is not entirely the fault of its users, but steemit has given freedom to its users to determine the form of writing or work contained in this platform.

Actually, to make Steemit as a good shared blogger platform, users need awareness in order to improve the quality of their writing or work.</b>

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last i hear, we need more curator than content creator .
If steemit going to depend on ads revenue than content creator is more important than curator.

To generate view, you need to give the consumer something.

With the content creator profit cut by half, do you think people will still want to post here?

Are you consolidating all the tribe front-ends, as well as eSteem and Steempeak? I know I personally run a campaign to convince people to get off of steemit.com and to try Steempeak, and I know many people who use creativecoin.xyz - didn't that just launch not long ago? Think about how many steemians are artist/photogs...

Just wondering if you considered that one day steemit.com might not be the leading portal to STEEM (hopefully...) and that transition might be starting already.

Great read, as is all the comments.

We've deliberately created the [Natural Medicine](https://naturalmedicine.io) Tribe and 'capturing' posts that use topic-relevant tags like #naturalhealth #permaculture #herbalism.

Being focussed on inwards-looking tags is great for attracting rewards in the other Tribes... but means you're audience is already on Steem. We want people interested in natural medicine, health, and healing to see us and come and join Steem.

The 'canonical links' issue is interesting, I've been looking into this of late. On the one hand, I like the idea that *all* Steem content is referring back to here... however I can see how that may be somewhat problematic now that we have Tribes (and soo, SMT Communities).

100% agreed.  I have been doing so much work on seo on @theexcelclub stuff because its my own site.  the results I have seen on my own site are fantastic and we can do the same here on steem.  its not just about longtail and evergreen, its also about social shares, comments, backlinks.  we need to write great searchable content and share it with the rest of the world.

gREAT READ MAN! SHARED!

> Many of my posts are about Steem. Not a topic that will bring the masses Googling towards us.

This is one of the primary reasons that I have been publishing my #rsslog series of posts since about March or April.  It's regular and timely content with predictable and consistent quality, and I'm sending links out from here to bloggers and publishers all over the Internet, who - hopefully - will sometimes have their curiosity piqued when they see steempeak.com in their traffic logs.

Got to be a large part in due to steempeak.

Some good points in the comments, along with the overall message - better content with more SEO potential and with disciplined use of tags.

I tend to use steempeak now because of the drafting and templates.

Good to see the move towards more curation - perhaps content other than steem-related will start to get better rewards.

One of SteemIt's strengths was that it had a strict policy towards duplicate content. With the creation of the tribes, there's no such thing as unique content anymore. It has crossed my mind several times that this is probably penalized by the search engines.

Maybe google is punishing steemit for duplicate content? I mean, steem tribes, busy, steempeak ... use the same content and google doesn't like it!

I tend to use Hypestat to check the Alexa rank is it exposes extra data for free. What I have noticed is that some countries are missing from their list. Japan and Spain were high up, but gone now. Malaysia and Poland are missing too. These could account for thousands of visitors and make the rank seem suspect.

I know a lot of Steemians use other sites and services, but Steemit is the biggest Steem site by far. It is more likely to be visited by people who have not signed up yet. It needs to be compelling. Recently changes mean less crap on trending, but there needs to be a good mix of topics there, but just the same people posting about Steem.

Overlooked in all this is the fact that most do not use Steemit.com especially with the introduction of the tribes.

For example, I am posting this comment from Steemleo directly.  I personally do not do anything on Steemit.com.  

I not only use busy and Steempeak but I also post/vote directly on Steemeleo, stemgeeks, and palnet.

Add in the other applications and it is easy to see that Steemit.com is no longer the choice app for most.

I'm sure a decent amount can be accounted for in people now having access to various steem apps and other web interface as well. Hard to quantify how much traffic is ACTUALLY lost unless you have access to all the traffic for each of them. A more accurate representation of traffic might be gathering activity on the chain? No?