Submitted 1 year ago by lemmyselfhosted@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
SEO sucks My site, which has actual content, doesn’t even show up on google. Someone else with the same domain and a different tld who has no content on his site is at the top. They have a marketing team, how am I gonna compete? Don’t worry about SEO, just have good content. People are gonna find it, SEO or not.
Add your site to Google’s search index and Bing’s search index. Most other search engines use one of their indexes. It can take a few days before the site starts showing up on Google/Bing/other search engines that use their indexes.
Make sure you set the metadata for the site in the HTML. I’ve never hosted a lemmy instance so I don’t know if that’s something that’s done automatically
TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 year ago
SEO’s a dark art.
In general, the more other pages (and the more highly-ranked pages) link to a page, the higher that page will show up in Google. But that’s also quite an oversimplification. (I don’t know that the rules Google uses for deciding how to rank pages in search results are even public info.
I don’t think there’s much any one person (even the owner) of a site can do to make a site show up higher in Google. The owner of a site can make smart decisions about how to ensure the site gets users coming back and posting links on social media and such, but ultimately the way a page/site gets to show up in more Google searches is by being popular.
My advice: don’t focus on Google or SEO or anything. Focus on fostering a community that’s worth coming back to and worth linking to.