I’ve searched for older Lemmy posts on Google just to see if they are getting indexed and I don’t think most are? Can anyone else confirm. I think if Lemmy showed up in more google searches like Reddit it would bring new users

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝AEnglish
    14·
    7 months ago

    I am quite happy to have a Google search phrase that brings up one of my posts: weaselverse darkest timeline. It’s niche but still…

    My understanding is that Lemmy’s cross-posting between instances makes Google think they are just a “farm” of sites harvesting clicks and ad revenue. That will really impact their ranking or even if they get indexed at all.

    I hope it’s only a matter of time before Google adjust their algorithms to take account of the Fediverse but I am not holding my breath. I have pondered how to improve Lemmy’s SEO but I am drawing a blank.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    7 months ago

    Based on a quick look, from the best to worse: DuckDuckGo > Google > Quant > Bing

    Unless search engines decide to integrate a dedicated filter to Fediverse, it will always be hard to search even if it’s indexed. Cross posts, quote posts are not search engine friendly features.

    • Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      61·
      7 months ago

      Welcome here!

      I heard Kagi has a specific Fediverse lens that can be used. Hopefully other will follow

  • pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.frEnglish
    3·
    4 months ago

    This is an old post, but I’ve only recently (I’d say a few months ago) started to see Google’s indexing bots pop-up in my instance’s server logs, so this may be about to change