RE: 👨💻 #Proposal-86: SEO Improvements
First, I think what you are proposing now is the most important improvement since I learned about Steemit.
Despite the shortcomings, I am inclined to option 3. There are many non-thematic communities, regional communities. If the community is called Venezuela and the post is about movies, this is not the best SEO approach. I understand that tags can be changed later by editing, but I support the third option anyway.
As far as I know, a lot of duplicate links has a negative impact on SEO. That is, if the same page has many different types of links. Once upon a time, these duplicates were "glued together" with the help of a redirect. However, this will lead to a large load on the server. Therefore, the only way out is a canonical link.
Canonical link is used to eliminate duplicate pages on the site. After it is added, search engines will index only the specified "selected" page.
I know that you already know all this 😆
So, I'm leaning towards option 3. At the same time, the community will need to explain how important the choice of the first tag will be.
I've thought about the Canonical and it could be a massive pain in the arse because of the order that the page is contructed 🙂
Even though all of those URLs work and it's possible to link to them, there'd need to be links to them which Google's reading and indexing. Which makes me feel that it's unlikely the same content would be indexed via multiple URLs. But it's possible. So I should try to overcome my fear and figure out the solution!
Incidentally, I've just written this comment which might be of interest.
It's tricky. I think that if Steemit's users were better at choosing appropriate URLs, option 3 would probably have a stronger proposition.
Let's have a look at 10 random posts from my interface that are in communities and see what tags they use:
Probably better than I expected but not many that seem particularly good (number 2, 8 and maybe 4).
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