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.