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

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?

wispydust,

including the world “Reddit” at the end

I found that adding “join Lemmy” works for Lemmy.

Also fedi-search.com has a few more ideas

ffejhog,

There is also www.search-lemmy.com which seems to work pretty well. It’s also open source

candyman337,
@candyman337@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t think iw oild be unreasonable for someone to make a search engine that is specifically for indexing lemmy posts. Seems like it would be a good addition to the lemmyverse site

nix,
@nix@merv.news avatar

It already exists search-lemmy.com

candyman337,
@candyman337@lemmy.world avatar

But you have to choose the instance you’re searching, that’s the opposite of what I want, I want to search all instances, or at least the top 100 or something, all at once

bzxt,

I agree

littlecolt,

Oh man, it’s like when the search engines were battling back in the day. We need a Lemmy version of MetaCrawler.

postmateDumbass,

Dogpile!

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

It does search all instances, the instance choosing is so links open in your preferred instance. Try it, you’ll see

Racle,
@Racle@sopuli.xyz avatar

Sadly, it doesn’t :(

sopuli.xyz search vs lemmy.world

morrowind,
@morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

That difference is probably because it respects which instances your chosen instance federates with. (It has to, to open it there)

I imagine that’s easy to change for people who really want to search everything

cantstopthesignal,

We just need years of community created content. EzPz

meyotch,

I’ve been playing with googles search indexing and my personal instance. My instance is a subdomain named lemmy of my vanity URL I’ve kept for years. One thing I’ve noticed is that even though I run an instance with one user and one community, my personal website under the domain - which is static and lame - has risen from 50th to 23rd with certain search terms.

My point relative to the original question is that lemmy seems to be inherently interesting to googles crawlers and spiders and wtevs.

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