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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Not really.. Nearly every phpBB, SMF, Invision forum etc is a separate self hosted community and they get indexed. Hell even small ones like one of my gaming guilds ranked high for specific key words.
For SEO to work well you need clear links to clear topics, and it helps to have automatic metada also to assist indexing.
Having google compatible site maps assists in crawling the site.
They can all get crawled, but you can't just add lemmy and force results from the fediverse to the top.
You can still do SEO (search engine optimization) but making sure all the prefered metadata is there, sitemaps etc.. It improves your rank.
Isn't going to put you at the top, that is the job of the content but it can be the difference between being on page one or not.