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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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

including the world "Reddit" at the end

I found that adding "join Lemmy" works for Lemmy.

Also https://fedi-search.com has a few more ideas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

There is also https://www.search-lemmy.com/ which seems to work pretty well. It's also open source

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion, but I don’t want that. I don’t want to start adding SEO stuff. If we have good content Google can figure out how to index it better themselves.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just curious, why not? Everything on the Fediverse is already public, by nature of federation. I think making the information shared here more easily discoverable is always a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

there's a lot of "exclusivity" behaviour on this community that I've noticed (and a loooot of us vs the mentality too, in regards to twitter/reddit/bluesky/mastodon)

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