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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

“Fediverse content” is absolutely indexed by Google, like everything else on the public web. Why would Google choose to ignore it just because it is from the fediverse?

But it usually doesn’t show up very prominently, and which instances’ copies do show up can be completely unpredictable. Probably the search built into fediverse software is more useful if you want to specifically search here.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It will show the instance where the post originated from. That is achieved through the canonical html meta tag that is available for exactly this purpose.

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just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Well, for the exact reason I said. Google ignores reference to anything without other corroboration. Hard or anchor links are necessary.

Fediverse content requires fluidity, and the same content is available at dozens of places. If they scrape the same post at different endpoint URIs, it will be discarded as spam.

This isn’t even news, it’s a known thing, and Google themselves described this in their SEO docs. No Fediverse instance is going to be spending money with Google to get a higher ranking, so it’s just kind of not going to show up.

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- bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Duplicate content is no problem. All posts have a canonical tag that points to the source post. Google will automatically only add that one URL to the index.
  
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