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How can we improve Lemmy’s SEO so we can google “(question) lemmy” instead of relying on “(question) reddit” (merv.news)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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most people i know use google by searching whatever question they have and including the word “reddit” at the end to find reddit threads since it currently has the most useful information.

As Lemmy gets more and more filled with useful threads and reviews it would be great if we can collectively improve Lemmy’s SEO so just including the word lemmy in a search will show lemmy threads related to the search.

The obscure tlds used in lemmy servers don’t help and lemmy.com currently redirects to lemm.ee. Is there a way we can improve the SEO of all instances or have lemmy.com be a aggregator of threads from many Lemmy servers?

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[–] DarraignTheSane@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Maybe I'm misinterpreting what you're saying, but lemmy.one has basically no content on it other than the 8 communities that @jonah has created or allowed there. The whole point of that server is to allow people to simply login and then participate in other instances from there.

That is all to say, lemmy.one would be one of the "smaller" instances from a standpoint of content to be indexed by Google.

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The whole point of that server is to allow people to simply login and then participate in other instances from there.

In order for users on lemmy.one to interact with content on other instances, lemmy.one has to import and host that content. So, it has plenty of content on it, just most of it originated elsewhere. That remote content should be just as indexable as local content.

[–] natflow@apollo.town 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I think it would be best if each post had a canonical tag pointed at the originating server’s version of that post. The lemmy ui generates a canonical tag now but I’m not sure it doesn’t just point to itself.

[–] Derproid@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This sounds like a good idea for an issue on the Lemmy github.

[–] natflow@apollo.town 2 points 1 year ago

Now that I'm on desktop, I checked and this was just added in 0.18.2: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1418

The weird thing (which they're also discussing elsewhere in this thread: https://upvote.au/comment/148846) is that it links to OP's instance rather than the community's instance.

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