Comment on Lemmy wouldn't really takeoff to replace Reddit until it's content is search indexable
captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 2 months ago
Isn’t Lenny content being openly indexed by most search engines? I think we just don’t have the years of content here, so it’s not going to have the same gravity.
Also, I wonder about all the varied domain names of all the servers. Would search engines treat them all as separate sites, and calculate page rank for each separately? If that’s the case, the influence of Lemmy in search results would be even lower.
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
It is and search engines do treat them separately, which is problematic, as seeing the same content on multiple domains may be seen as spammy and lead to downranking.
github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search tried to fix this, but was put on hold due to some perf issues with a lemmy update.
Kagi recently added a fediverse filter, though I barely use it because there are rarely good results. Just isn’t much content worth searching on lemmy yet
Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 months ago
I don’t think this is true, Lemmy is already using
rel=“canonical”which should be telling Google what the real URL is, like here on programming.dev I see this in the page source<link data-inferno-helmet=“true” rel=“canonical” href=“https://lemmy.world/post/19493729”>which is why the Google results for this search don’t show a million different instances mirroring it
www.google.com/search?q=Lemmy+wouldn't+really+tak…
www.semrush.com/blog/canonical-url-guide/
morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
That’s good, I didn’t know about that. Although the problem does still seem to exist with
different software
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and different frontends
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