People still often out the site modifier on just to prevent google from barfing up a bunch of crap they don’t care about, even if they know that Reddit results will be near the top.
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Astongt615@lemmy.one 10 months agoIdeally it would be popular enough that you wouldn’t need the site modifier. Google would see that Lemmy has the most seen and perpetuated answer just like it sometimes does with Reddit now, whatever the instance.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
new_acct_who_dis@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In the eyes of a search engine, yes.
But once a site is popular enough for traffic and engagement to influence it’s position in search, it’s def going to be popular enough for bots, trolls, bad faith actors, grifters, etc.