Steemit Snowballing, Taking Top Google Results From Competitors

Oh the irony. I was just putzing around the internet and decided to check what came up if I Googled “cryptocurrency social network,” and “Bitcoin social network.”

For the first search, there were quite a few results about Steemit and on Steemit, as should be expected. Steemit is after all the number one social networking site that has cryptocurrency rewards built in. But I was a little surprised at the results for my search for “Bitcoin social network.” The number two result is an article on Steemit about the Yours social network. So ironic. But also what I expected. I mean, Steemit doesn’t pay out in Bitcoin, so of course the top result should be an article about a social network that does (or plans to, someday). And then, double irony. The Steemit article was caught by a content detection bot for being similar to an article from bravenewcoin.com. Unfortunately, the bravenewcoin version didn’t even make it to the first page of Google results.

Looks like Steemit is dominating search results for certain topics. It will be exciting to see what happens when Steemit is out of beta and ready for a big influx of new users. I predict more and bigger layers added to the snowball.

In the meantime I’ll keep digging and see if there’s anything else interesting.

Published on Hive on 2017-05-06. View the original post and discussion on Hive.