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How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 year ago by countrypunk@slrpnk.net to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I'm curious as to why Lemmy rarely shows up in search results on the main internet even if there is a post related to the search input. I've only ever seen a Lemmy result if Lemmy is specified. Is this because we're still relatively small or some other reason?

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

From an SEO perspective, federation looks almost exactly the same as spam unfortunately. A bunch of websites with very similar content that all link to each other but aren’t linked to externally very much.

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[–] kernelle@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This person gets it! After I launched my website/blog it showed up immediately on google, even though it's content is directly pulled from my Lemmy instance. Which has been running much longer than the site, and cannot be found using search engines.

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

...and you say that as if it's a bad thing :)

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, it hurts discoverability. How can you have a community without people?

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[–] splendoruranium@infosec.pub 1 point 1 year ago

Yes, it hurts discoverability. How can you have a community without people?

I'd like to ask it the other way around: How many people would it need until you'd say "Yep, that's a community alright."?

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yes, you need people. But I'd say Reddit has too many people. The Ethernal September problem: sometimes, small is better.

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[–] MrStranger@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

The thing with Reddit is that it got too big and political. It was open before but yet still fun a decade ago.

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