RE: Let's Get More People On Hive

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oblivioncubed in Rant, Complain, Talk • 10 months ago

The vast majority of what I produce isn't for a HIVE audience. My ttrpg content/reviews are shared on BlueSky because that's where my audience is - and even though we don't get referral data anymore in our analytics I can definitely tell that folks from outside the Hive ecosystem are coming and reading. Similarly, the blog posts I tied to my series of Vampire Survivor walkthroughs still get about 50-100 views a month and I posted those... a year/half a year ago.

I don't know if any of the passive pulls to the blog have turned into signups, but getting folks here definitely is something I've been keeping an eye on for the last year on my own accounts.

10 months ago in Rant, Complain, Talk by oblivioncubed

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macchiata 10 months ago

Similarly, the blog posts I tied to my series of Vampire Survivor walkthroughs still get about 50-100 views a month and I posted those... a year/half a year ago.

Same here, whenever I checked my analytics, it gets visitors that are outside Hive. I wonder too if one of those ever signed up after reading the blog or the reviews. One thing for sure is that our content is indexed and if we have the proper SEO write up, it pops up to certain audiences.

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killerwot 10 months ago

I'd never heard of the term SEO until a few weeks ago. Is there a way to incorporate that into our Hive articles?

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macchiata 10 months ago

Yes and yes. Will be telling you more about it once I get back from dentist 😄

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killerwot 10 months ago

Good luck at the dentist, and thank you chat with you then

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macchiata 10 months ago

So basically, if you're writing with SEO friendly guideline, it makes your content easily discovered by others who are looking for the type of post you're writing about. Here's sort of easy way to understand how SEO can be applied to Hive https://peakd.com/hive-174578/@pitboy/how-to-write-seo-friendly-post-on-hive

Although since that post published, google did a few tweak in their algorithm. This is their latest how-to's on creating people first content. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content

That guide basically your basic when creating a content that is searchable on google. However with the rise of AI, I am sure something on the horizon will pop out soon.

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killerwot 10 months ago

That's amazing thank you so much, I'm going to get my head down and read these, and see if I can incorporate a bit of this into future posts!

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killerwot 10 months ago

Yeah, letting them see what we have going on is a good start, even if they don't sign up it'll be in their head for the next time they see it.

I told Alonicus there, I found one writing community on Reddit called, r/writingprompts - think, and it might be a good place to share prompt links. The community seems pretty active and talkative there, so could be worth dropping some in and seeing what happens.

That's interesting, how can you see if you have readers from outside of Hive? I've never used any analytics tools while being here.

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oblivioncubed 10 months ago

PeakD has an analytics section though it's not as robust as it used to be years ago. It only shows overall views now, but given how HIVE operates you can assume 98% of all views after a post has been on hive for two weeks are likely external views... It's rare that much of the community looks at old posts here unless they're markup guides or other hive-meta content.

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killerwot 10 months ago

Oh cool I'll check it out over PeakD! I don't use that one too often, cheers! Yeah that's safe to assume, usually the newests posts get the most attention within Hive.

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oblivioncubed 10 months ago

Happy to point it out! You'll find it within the "Dashboard" and then "Analytics > Views and visitors" section:

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