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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
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Good content will still be surfaced on its own

Not if you don’t do basic SEO at least… Things like ensuring that pages have:

  • Good title tags, with the most important parts (post topic) at the start of the title
  • Meta tags - description, keywords, canonical URL, etc
  • Open Graph tags - for when links are shared on social media sites
  • been optimized to load quickly - Google prioritises faster sites above slower ones

Plus the site should have a robots.txt and sitemap XML that’s been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools.

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Like, if a web crawler sees a Beehaw post, and then seees Lemmy.ml’s mirrored page of that same post, could it just show up as two different results? Could it work against the SEO in that it gets marked as “duplicate” or “spam” content in some way?

The ideal solution is that the page has a canonical tag, telling search engines what the main URL for the content is: ahrefs.com/blog/canonical-tags/. I don’t know if Lemmy already does this, nor do I know how well canonical tags work cross-domain as I’ve only ever used them for content on the same domain.

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Yeah I’m confused about that too. I drink ice water all the time when it’s hot… But I live in an area with a mild climate, where 27C (80F) is considered hot.

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