The problem with Lemmy is the federated content gets duplicated on multiple sites, word for word, which isn’t good for SEO
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ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 11 months agoHere’s hoping at some point search engines will return Lemmy links when people look for answers, but we’re not there yet
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
That is a search engine problem, not a lemmy problem.
russjr08@bitforged.space 11 months ago
crazyCat@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Have we said anything useful yet? Just kidding, but I just look for casual commentary on here, all surface level and meme stuff when tired at the end of the day.
RecallMadness@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
I think Something will have to change quite significantly.
Search engines give heavy weighting to uniqueness of content. And with Lemmy content being replicated across the fediverse that doesn’t exactly happen.
And I’m not sure you can set a canonical URL that’s off site. And then, if it does and that site goes down, you “lose” the content.
AA5B@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not just that it’s not unique, but any single instance is less heavily viewed, even if the overall response is
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
search engines are thoroughly crap right now. Abandon all hope that they will become better.
M137@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You say that like it’s true for all search engines. Which isn’t the case and is incredibly dumb to think.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Lemme guess, you’re a kagi cultist.