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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 nix@merv.news to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

But you have to choose the instance you're searching, that's the opposite of what I want, I want to search all instances, or at least the top 100 or something, all at once

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It does search all instances, the instance choosing is so links open in your preferred instance. Try it, you'll see

[–] Racle@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, it doesn't :(

sopuli.xyz search vs lemmy.world

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That difference is probably because it respects which instances your chosen instance federates with. (It has to, to open it there)

I imagine that's easy to change for people who really want to search everything

[–] bzxt@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I agree

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man, it's like when the search engines were battling back in the day. We need a Lemmy version of MetaCrawler.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Dogpile!