I was wondering if the nature of decentralization would negatively affect SEO, since people can access the same post from many different instance
Fair enough for atleast lemmy webiste and github page shows in the search.
I believe there are engines that specifically index (search) the Fediverse. Searx is one that can do this but it might depend on the instance.
Oh, good point. Yes, probably? We can not simply assume search engines know that all of these point to the same content:
- https://slrpnk.net/c/technology
- https://feddit.de/c/technology@slrpnk.net
- https://sopuli.xyz/c/technology@slrpnk.net
- https://beehaw.org/c/technology@slrpnk.net
Or even worse, due to defederation, they may not all point to the exact same content.
Without further investment either from lemmy or the search engine’s side, they are probably seen as distinct sources, not aggregated. Which makes each individually less relevant and less likely to show up .
Also note none of the adresses above contain ‘lemmy’. How would users search for content on lemmy in these cases? Can’t do “technology site:lemmy”, or?
But I can say, lemmy content is visible. Haven’t seen it on the first page of ecosia yet, but on page 2 or 3.