Unsurprisingly i know next to nothing about Google Search Console. Looks like it could help though. At the very least you’ve given me an avenue to explore and build my own knowledge. Thank you!
Comment on Low Levels of Aussie Zone association with Lemmy in Search.
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 months ago
I wonder if claiming ownership in Google Search Console would help? It would probably flow onto other search engines.
Though we might get ranked down for effectively duplicating a larger more commonly accessed site (Lemmy.world) even if the content belongs here. This could be a thing for the Lemmy developers to look into, i.e. generating a robots.txt which blocks all federated communities
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 months ago
unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yeah it’s good for working out why pages aren’t being indexed. I’m not aware of anything similar for bing search
zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Nothing4You@programming.dev 3 months ago
Posts have a canonical reference to the originating instance, e.g. this post contains
<link data-inferno-helmet=“true” rel=“canonical” href=“https://aussie.zone/post/11962005”>for me. This is a hint for search engines to ignore this post and instead index the original one instead. The same also already works for communities, this community containing<link data-inferno-helmet=“true” rel=“canonical” href=“https://aussie.zone/c/meta”>. Not sure if DDG is just ignoring this or there’s another reason for it to show up multiple times.unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Yeah they might have to change how Lemmy handles posts like that which might break stuff. Search engines would also have to work out that Lemmy is not a single site but a collection and since the site name does not mention Lemmy it might be more difficult