It is irritating, worth asking as to why!
I thought it was only sweetsssj and friends collecting any tokens over there.
One thing i did notice when checking old posts yesterday is all my links prior to hive point to steemit. I wonder if updating all of these would help in any way - probably not :)
That's not a bad idea. It couldn't hurt. Thousands of posts on Hive pointing to Steemit... every one of those is a bit of link juice that would contribute to steemit having a higher rank on Google. I hadn't thought about that, but I have started updating my steemit posts to point to Hive. I started doing that about a month ago. It's slow going though, because I moved over all my STEEM after the fork, so I can only edit 1-2 pages per day before my RC runs out.