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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Noob question here. Does that mean each instance must hold the totality of the content it knows about?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes it does. But only content created after subscribing to that community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how lemmy or kbin handle instance-hosted media links -- whether they import the media and redirect the link, or whether they point to the original media object -- but otherwise, yes.

There are ways to access other websites directly from within a given website -- iframes and the like -- but that's not what happens here. Each website is independent of each other, and all text is locally hosted in your instance's database.

There are also (limited) copies of user profiles all over the place -- if you click on my username, for instance, you'll be taken to lemmy.world/u/[email protected]. That's a local lemmy.world user address, even though I'm not on lemmy.world. I can't login to that account -- it's either credentialless, or has randomized credentials -- but it exists. And by going there, you get to see what lemmy.world knows about my activity across the fediverse. Without ever leaving lemmy.world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks a lot for the explanation!