was listening to a podcast today by a very successful blogger. His blogs routinely bring in over 1,000,000 visitors each every month. He was talking about the metrics of SEO. 

Something which has always surprised me is how well Steemit.com does in the search engines even though good quality content is not the norm. 

The fellow was talking about one of his older, less maintained sites suddenly taking off in the search engines. When he took a closer look, he realized this happened after Google raised the importance of site speed in their algorithms. 

The site that took off was using a design that was several years old and had not been updated. 

So, we might complain about the Steemit design .. but it appears that is a factor in it doing as well in Google as it does.