Since SEO came up again.
Try to fit in for bigger updates some cheap press release.
Add a " Blog or Update" section on ecency ( only for SEO, static pages).
And well maybe some basic guest posts on Blogs/ websites that are crypto or Freedom of speech related ( and that cost 0 if done right with the right way to outreach and be nice, only time).
This way one front end could show up in search since nobody does here Offpage work.
I know nobody cares and people say it for years and i bacame tired too to mention it.
Remember the marketing proposal? years ago? " we hire expert agency top 10 worldwide".
Just for Info, top 10 agencies are private and do marketing for 1 client only and next it was a waste. Not a single mention from other websites to hive or what hive does. Something evergreen.
So sad it is, this is untapped long hanging fruit potential bigger as the waste of all proposals that never attract 1 new user.
Appreciate this and you're right that offpage SEO is the biggest underexploited lever on Hive.
On our side, the onpage/technical foundation is in good shape - CDN caching for content delivery (fast page loads, consistent
crawler response times), clean SSR markup on Vision-Next, canonical tags, sitemaps. That's the easier half.
The harder half - which is what you're pointing at - is external authority. We've started something there: the weekly Ecency news
digest gets cross-posted to Medium specifically as a backlink play, slowly building external signals over time. It's not fast, but it compounds. Guest posts on crypto and free-speech blogs is a logical next step, fully agree the right approach is patient outreach and being genuinely useful, not paid placements.
On the static "Blog/Update" section - good idea, we can look at a dedicated update/changelog page on ecency.com that's clean markup for crawlers and links well from the homepage. Most of our update content lives in Hive posts which are indexable, but a consolidated static page would help.
Marketing with big agency spend rarely beats consistent low-cost ongoing work. The path you're describing (cheap, consistent, evergreen, relationship-based) is the right one. Will keep pushing on it.