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zephyr@lemmy.world to Lemmy Support@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Will Lemmy posts be indexed by search engines?

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Will Lemmy posts be indexed by search engines?

zephyr@lemmy.world to Lemmy Support@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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  • Steve@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    They aren’t behind any login or anything stopping it. So yah, I expect they’re already are being indexed.

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      I’m worried the Fediverse is going to be an SEO nightmare though.

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        That’s a good point. The same content exists on multiple instances. I think Lemmy should set a canonical URL the HTML <head>. The canonical URL of each post should point to the instance where a post originates from.

        Seems like that is not implemented in Lemmy. Also checked Mastodon, and doesn’t have a canonical tag either.

        https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls#rel-canonical-link-method

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          On browser, I see a little fediversee icon next to every post/comment that links to the canonical. I don’t think traditional html search engines know how to index it, though. Probably better if we have our own lemmy search engine like browse.feddit.de

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