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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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[-] natflow@apollo.town 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think it would be best if each post had a canonical tag pointed at the originating server’s version of that post. The lemmy ui generates a canonical tag now but I’m not sure it doesn’t just point to itself.

[-] Derproid@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

This sounds like a good idea for an issue on the Lemmy github.

[-] natflow@apollo.town 2 points 1 year ago

Now that I'm on desktop, I checked and this was just added in 0.18.2: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1418

The weird thing (which they're also discussing elsewhere in this thread: https://upvote.au/comment/148846) is that it links to OP's instance rather than the community's instance.

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