I was wondering if the nature of decentralization would negatively affect SEO, since people can access the same post from many different instance

    • dave_r@reddthat.com
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      2 years ago

      An earlier post pointed out: federated sites seem like they will suffer against central content in a SEO world - regardless of whether they are technically indexable.

      I wonder if lemmy should have a SEO friendly federated site… .com domain, robots.txt and everything else…

    • Briskfall@kbin.social
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      2 years ago

      How long does it usually take for google to index websites? Because I tried the string lemmy site:lemmy.ml after:2023-06-15 and only one post turned up for me and it was Memes… the current state of affairs does not seem promising 😔 And if I tried with another instance with the same keywords lemmy site:kbin.social after:2023-06-15 nothing even turned up.

      I wonder though, will search engines adapt to Lemmy and its fediverse system? Or will search engines die? Or will we see dedicated search engines to search through the fediverse?

      • manned_meatball@lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        How long does it usually take for google to index websites?

        Anything between a couple of hours to more than a week, I don’t think having a “real-time feed” through Google is important though. Other than world cup scores, their results were never about speed.