How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?
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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in reply to sndmn • • •...No. It's because Lemmy content and users are duplicated into hundreds of instances. Websites are ranked independently and because they're so split, none of them are popular enough to be on search engines. There are plenty of ad-free sites that show up on page one.
some speculate that because the content is the same across all these instances, Lemmy might be getting caught in the spam filter too.
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in reply to countrypunk • • •I've seen my own posts show up in specific search results based on the transcripts, which is nice to see. Tried searching for "Great Scott! The hatch is opening" on Google just now and it linked to my post at discuss.online/post/14315116. That's probably a bit of an issue actually. The link is for lemmy.dbzer0.com for my user on midwest.social to a community on lemmy.world and I just linked to it from discuss.online. Those might each be ranked independently even though it's the same content, vs all being ranked together if it's all centralized on one site like Reddit. Not really that hard to adjust for, but if Google doesn't care in the first place because they think they'll get fewer ad impressions out of it then it won't be changed.
Kagi has a feature for specifically searching the fediverse. It's a paid search engine, but IMO that ends up with their incentives aligned with mine.
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in reply to Zak • • •Be the change you want to see, I've been sending links like piefed.social/post/1062918 to friends and family when I see interesting things or funny memes
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in reply to schnurrito • • •Sure but it creates tragic, and they might click around and subscribe, maybe search for it in the future.
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in reply to Ek-Hou-Van-Braai • • •On my flashlight review website, every article links to a corresponding post on !flashlight@lemmy.world and displays comments from there.
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in reply to countrypunk • • •Pretty much, yeah. Incredibly.
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in reply to ayyy • • •I don't remember the exact search, but it had something to do with Star Citizen. A link to a post from that Lemmy.world community was fairly high on a DuckDuckGo search result.
Along with a few other users, I've posted some useful links and info in the community over there. It looks like that work is starting to pay off.
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in reply to ayyy • • •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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in reply to countrypunk • • •Depends on the search engine you use. I started giving Kagi a try and it has options to increase visibility of fediverse content in your searches.
I'd guess it's a mix of fediverse being a poor fit for ad-oriented SEO and relatively low adoption.