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?

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Good content will still be surfaced on its own

    Not if you don’t do basic SEO at least… Things like ensuring that pages have:

    • Good title tags, with the most important parts (post topic) at the start of the title
    • Meta tags - description, keywords, canonical URL, etc
    • Open Graph tags - for when links are shared on social media sites
    • been optimized to load quickly - Google prioritises faster sites above slower ones

    Plus the site should have a robots.txt and sitemap XML that’s been submitted to Google Webmaster Tools.