In my opinion, word of mouth marketing is one of the most important things for both brand building and bursts of traffic, while SEO is important for organic traffic over time.

What I think will lead to the best results are 'social signals' from the 'average users'. Like Reblogging articles on Hive/LeoFinance and Retweeting and/or sharing Hive/LeoFinance articles on Twitter along with people sharing LeoFinance/Hive links on Publish0x, reddit & Facebook for instance.

Even though a direct link like this to: LeoFinance will have a better chance of generating traffic, as people could easily just click on that specific link, I think that most people actually forget, or ignore, brand building in the sense that you just mention LeoFinance and/or Hive within a message.

For instance, if you find someone on Twitter who is asking for a good place to share content, you can just as easily as you would share them a direct link to LeoFinance, just tell them that:

"LeoFinance is a great place to share content. You can even earn cryptocurrencies for your contributions"

That is how brand building works and it is word of mouth marketing at the same time. While doing that, without direct links, you don't risk being flagged, censored and/or muted and I would rather have people talking about LeoFinance/Hive without using direct links, instead of people spamming LeoFinance/Hive links all over the internet and being muted for it.. As that will lead to zero growth over time.

Sorry for the long answer, but long story short:

• Talking about LeoFinance/Hive, in the right places so to speak would do the trick. Meaning, not spamming a lot of links where it doesn't belong just in an attempt to generate traffic.

• Retweeting/Tweeting/Reblogging/Liking/Sharing LeoFinance/Hive content elsewhere.

• Optimizing blog posts for traffic over time.

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