I was perusing Reddit this afternoon and noticed a post about Steemit. I love to see Steemit getting recommended or getting attention outside of the Steemit community directly so I clicked the post.
People on the r/SEO subreddit are saying Steemit is a great backlink factory.
For anyone who's not familiar with SEO, article writing, and all that jazz, this basically means that Steemit is a great place to come write low quality garbage content, add a link and post it for a backlink.
They have discovered that links on Steemit become dofollow links with enough upvotes so they use upvote bots to upvote shit content. While they are degrading the quality and integrity of this platform, they get their coveted backlink which helps their site rank better.
I've been somewhat critical of upvote bots on this platform even for regular Steemit users but now we are going to have outsiders who have zero interest in Steemit comming over here to benefit themselves and their shopify stores or affiliate sites, cluttering this platform as a whole, as well as the trending and hot pages with more bullshit.
Your thoughts?