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Are Lemmy posts crawl-able by search engines? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by snek_boi@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Discussions here are often very interesting, and at times incredibly helpful. If I had no clue about Lemmy, but I searched online for a topic that happened to be discussed in Lemmy, will that discussion appear in the search engine?

As a related question, do you think the discussion example would show up in the search results in the most informative way? I mean in an search engine optimization-kind of way.

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[–] ksynwa@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The devs have actually spent a lot of valuable time making the website isomorphic. Because that it can be rendered server side and can be crawled for search indexing.

[–] picoblaanket@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That's awesome. Big respect to the devs for the isomorphic conversion.

[–] marmulak@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How to engage the Soviet Socialist Republic?

[–] alexlehm@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

When I search for my Lemmy instance, I am seeing about 2000 results, that includes posts https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Afeddit.de

[–] alexlehm@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Though I cannot find this thread for example

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It takes a while for them to pick it up! Probably hasn't been crawled yet this thread.

[–] alexlehm@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it is still not found after a few days

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Hmm idk

[–] blue_penquin@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

DDG seems to have picked it up, not Google though

[–] UnreliantGiant@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Just tried finding some lemmy posts in DuckDuckGo. Doesn't seem like they're indexed

[–] SudoDnfDashY@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure. I've seen a few of my posts on search engines.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We need a fediverse-friendly search engine then like https://search.noc.social/

[–] dreamLogic 2 points 2 years ago

Depending on how you feel about Google and privacy, having your Lemmy comments indexed could be seen as a negative thing.

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Ug. This is slightly undesirable.
Saved only by the value gained from radically open accessibleness.
A society that is gridlocked based on privacy can leave alot of people out in the cold.
Very little progress has been done to create inclusive private spaces.

[–] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you talking about having good search engines in things like private communities in Lemmy or chat rooms in Matrix and things like that?

[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

privacy means that it is not open to be crawled by the public.