Thanks for feedback.

Well never go agency, is waste of money. All big companies have 1 client agencies ( so is basically inhouse). 99% of others are close to scam, the problem is profit margin of those services is around 70%+.

I recommend Inhouse + paid services ( by service) like news release. The updates on Hive style is ok but also link that in a static Blog ( like rework the Ecency Blog in a scroll down down with Full content display / 50% content display, this depends.

This will be your link juice gatherer.

From here you Silo other stuff so the juice can flow.

Thats a big problem on Hive, you are right and 99% of people ignore it or dont understand it. If you have money, hire someone for consulting ( not me, no time for this). Would recommend some Affiliate SEO dude that has numbers to show, they should be able to do basic keyword research + Brand marketing.

And Brand marketing keywords " Hive, Hive Blockchain, Social Blockchain, Social media token, Blockchain Rewards for social media posts, Free transaction Blockchain and so on ( i did not research those in any tool, just from my mind).

But really, NEVER GO AGENCY! Please. Thats like burn money. Every CEO needs to understand marketing and sales for his product, thats 90% of work and product is 10%. No user = no value. No buyer = no revenue.

On hive is 99.9% product and zero marketing, so this is untapped.

If you need help for services ( i used in past) i can send you some.

Also get some retard with to much time and basic SEO knowledge + good ourtreach skills ( OR AI + scrapper) to hit up people from outside.

Most Tech people are cool ( most Blogger are cool people), so they are most times open for a Q and A or some Post ( i mean you could literally ask them to try the platform and reward them with 100% upvotes for good user experience and tell them is a cool backup).

With outreach to those Blogs you can get 1000$ worth links for free ( for work).

Next is donation links, a lot of open source projects link back to the people who donate, donate 20$ and get a link. You help some cool project and other tech people see your logo and you get a Backlink. I think you know, most open source devs doesnt swim in cash.

Off course thats a lot of work and research, it needs some tools and someone with Knowledge.

BUT REMEMBER DONT GO AGENCY, the people who work there are literally retarded. They sell their product, thats it.

I know so many agency owners ( also very big). Really, dont do it.

The Seo big brains run own projects and earn this way way more. Remember this, big brain SEO = own projects. A very big affiliate site can make 100k a month easy. So dont expect you get a High end SEO for 10k a month.

So since both are no options, build it inhouse and ask community to help. The problem with hive is, rewards are only onchain.

Imagine a reward mechanic for "reach" ( could be build by advertisement and rev share).

I say those things since years, the last time i said it i got attacked from a lot of people ( like advertisements are bad and so on). Monetize eyeballs can build a cycle of Token value sustainable + free eyeballs from outside, i mean come on, we have a stablecoin.

A step ( and now we go offtopic) beyond could be bring affiliate payments onchain.

Imagine someone pays you for SEO ( advertisement revenue). Then it becomes fun.

with no revenue, its pain in the ass since you earn 0 if you onboard 10k more users with higher rankings ( you have more costs with that).

So i would start here and design a revenue stream + a massive outreach engine.

What you can do today for free? Write 10 emails a day to people that have a Blog outside and make the mail personal ( if you are lazy ask AI to research the person).

Some last words in the wall of text, paid is not bad by design. But not the news sites. Press release ( big companies use too) are useful for every shit update. So google and search engines knows you do something ( i used it for shit affiliate websites in the past, so imagine how unreadable the content was).

This cost around 100$ to 500$ depending what you want. With a 1000$ budget a month you can easy rank keywords like " hive" on page 1 + a lot of work.

You also want the big Box in google and co ( not the search result, the big box with little links under it with subpages), thats always the goal for brand marketing.

Imagine this work for all the years Hive is around, we would have traffic like hell. The problem is, nobody sees it and takes it god given.

One last thing, Organic growth is a myth in link building if people dont hate you. If they hate you, they complain and link to your page. But nobody links to you " wow this website is badass", this never happens by nature.

Well i hope that was not a blast into the void, haha.