@profitofthegods - I would like to recruit your help, please. I'm still pretty good at seo/sep myself, but I just don't have the time right now with the other stuff I'm working on, the wiki's, ddns, disqus and social media threads, etc. Is dmoz still worth it? Other dir's? I can't afford to pay out much more right now, but with an army of people in this community, I think we could ALL post a link to https://bitshares.org on 2 or 3 different sites and bump our alexa quite a bit.
At least get us onto page 1 for the 18 search strings I listed above jesus christ.
The owner of bitshares.org needs to completely revamp that site though, it's boring as hell and the bounce rate is insane- see my comments above. We can bring'm, but if we're not closin'm, then we're burning hours for no reason. I want someone to build us a REAL website, something exciting, something that tells me WHY I need to register and fund a BitShares account, and why I need to do it RIGHT NOW.
QUESTION: Would the community here like to see the Accountability Roster integrated with the bitsharesblocks website? Coingecko.com is a great example of what our Delegates table could look like. Let the world see who they can contact for marketing, sales questions, HR, technical support and puppies.
I don't usually bother with directories myself; they probably do have some value but not enough for it to be worth the time imo, unless perhaps its a new site with no links and you just want to get the ball rolling. I also suspect that DMOZ doesn't really have any special status now, the way it did.
I think you are right about the website. On-page SEO is way more important than off-page SEO these days, which means targeted content. Yes it would be good to present a clear case for why somebody needs to register and fund an account, but I would go even further and say it would be good to think about the kind of people who would benefit and the kind of things they might be searching for that Bitshares can provide a solution for, and present a compelling case multiple times in different ways and perhaps on multiple web properties too.
In terms of links, quality is better than quantity. Do what Google says you should do - if you can post a link somewhere it's likely to get seen by real people who may genuinely be interested then that's really great and everyone should try to do that if the opportunity is there. But be careful about getting a small army of people to just start posting links everywhere they can, because it can be counterproductive if it makes your link profile look unnatural.
If you need help identifying search terms to target or optimizing content for Bitshares.org then let me know. My starting point is to have a list of search terms and a list of pages which answer those queries, which is half the job really.
I think I am going to do a little test and if I think I can do anything good I may stand as a delegate.