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How visible is lemmy on search engine? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by axorld@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was wondering if the nature of decentralization would negatively affect SEO, since people can access the same post from many different instance

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[–] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.ml/robots.txt , https://lemmy.world/robots.txt , etc don't seem to disallow posts, so the text-based content should be easy to index, at least for these instances.

[–] Briskfall@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How long does it usually take for google to index websites? Because I tried the string lemmy site:lemmy.ml after:2023-06-15 and only one post turned up for me and it was Memes... the current state of affairs does not seem promising 😔 And if I tried with another instance with the same keywords lemmy site:kbin.social after:2023-06-15 nothing even turned up.

I wonder though, will search engines adapt to Lemmy and its fediverse system? Or will search engines die? Or will we see dedicated search engines to search through the fediverse?

[–] manned_meatball@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

How long does it usually take for google to index websites?

Anything between a couple of hours to more than a week, I don't think having a "real-time feed" through Google is important though. Other than world cup scores, their results were never about speed.