I’ve gotten links to Lemmy posts on Google before?
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oxomoxo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Kagi is a search engine that has built in Lemmy/Kbin search.
If you’re talking about mainstream search engines then no, they haven’t started supporting Fediverse content yet.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 9 months ago
oxomoxo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I assume you’re phrasing this as a question to challenge what I said regarding main stream search engines.
It is possible to get a random hit on Lemmy, as instances are crawled like any other webpage. Just like you might get a Mastadon hit every once in a while. However they will not rank very high and almost always be buried a few pages in, while a Reddit post will rank much higher for the same search.
It’s the natured of how federation works and search engines don’t account for it. You can increase your chances by including a specific instance name or the word Lemmy.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 9 months ago
Wow, does it? I tried it a while back and it was amazing but i saw no mention of Lemmy? Can you boost the entirety of Lemmy the same way you can boost one website?
oxomoxo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, Kagi has a bunch of “Lenses” not just for Lemmy & Kbin but for all kinds of sources.
As of right now I’m not sure how you could SEO boost Lemmy. The federation makes it seem like a single post exists on many different sites.
With nearly a thousand Lemmy instances it’s as though someone cross posted to hundreds of websites which there would be no way to prioritize with the way current mainstream search engines work.
They just need to program a method for indexing Lemmy, and the rest of the ActivityPub compatible services, as a single entity. I am sure they will catch up eventually.