Why isn't Lemmy indexed yet?

Candelestine, 10 months ago

Reddit did not start getting indexed and commonly delivered in generic results for years and years and years. Don't hold your breath. Eventually, though, it'll happen. So long as we're still here and growing.

Years. Not days, weeks or months.

saplyng, 10 months ago

Years? Fine I'll index it myself, with blackjack and hookers!

salieri, 10 months ago

We’ve done out own Reddit, time to do our own search engine!!! /s

what_is_a_name, 10 months ago

Reddit also has decades of back linking and other behaviours that increase its page rank.

Let’s run our own race. If we keep making Fediverse great, the results will come. We are but a tadpole in the big internet lake.

Dark_Blade, 10 months ago

Do we really want all that bs traffic though? The larger this place becomes, the worse (I fear) it’ll get.

snailwizard, 10 months ago

It’s simply a matter of time, on the matter of months and months and months to years.

skillissuer, 10 months ago

reddit is some 500x bigger than all of lemmy, you won't see much

Awwab, 10 months ago

If you do a search for something like "selfhost site:Lemmy.*" then you get results so the boards are definitely getting indexed. The SEO just isn't there to make it what Google thinks is a better choice when compared to other sites. That may change as these sites get used more and more things are posted and discussed but I wouldn't be surprised if the Google algorithm weighs reddit posts higher than other sites simply because reddit has become such a great resource for things.

Monomate, 10 months ago

What about Lemmy instances which don't have an URL starting with "lemmy"? How will a typical Google user filter results if he's interested in all Lemmy instances? DuckDuckGo to the rescue? 👽

NotBadAndYou, 10 months ago

In theory one of the big instances like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml should be indexed and searchable using the site: tag, and their local caches of communities originating on other instances should be included. It might mean that Google returns multiple duplicate pages (one for each instance indexed) however, unless Google takes steps to reduce duplication. Time will tell I guess.

eruchitanda, 10 months ago

The problem with searching Lemmy, is that you can call your instance however you want, so it might not be 'lemmy.*'.

Take for exapmle sh.​itjust​.works. You need to search with site: for it, separately.

njinx, 10 months ago

Reddit has orders of magnitude more content than Lemmy. Reddit also has better SEO. I don't think Google is purposely not showing Lemmy content, we just don't have enough content to show.

Monomate, 10 months ago

Ha, for a moment I read "better CEO". 😅 By the way, will Google as a search engine even be relevant by the time Lemmy gets big? Maybe they'll pivot to AI instead of traditional search results.