There are many factors that determine the ranking of a blog on a search engine. A well-optimized blog, on-page SEO (on-site optimization) and off-page SEO (off-site optimization) will improve results in search engines.

On page SEO includes placement of heading tags, keyword selection, and complete content: there are images, infographics, videos. Off page SEO means strengthening backlinks to boost blog rankings, and share to social media.

Quality backlinks help to increase blog rankings in search engines. Quality backlinks for example come from large sites that have high DA / PA, Wikipedia, Medium, Quora or .edu sites, .gov and so on.

Then, what about Steemit and Stressress? In my experience, backlinks from Steemit helped boost the blog. The condition is that blogs that use Steempress to publish content to Steemit need to set a pause, for example 30 minutes after airing on a new WordPress blog appears in Steemit. Otherwise it will be considered duplicate content by Google and it will drop the rank of our blog in the search engine.