How come Lemmy rarely shows up in internet search results?
I'm curious as to why Lemmy rarely shows up in search results on the main internet even if there is a post related to the search input. I've only ever seen a Lemmy result if Lemmy is specified. Is this because we're still relatively small or some other reason?
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in reply to ayyy • • •I don't remember the exact search, but it had something to do with Star Citizen. A link to a post from that Lemmy.world community was fairly high on a DuckDuckGo search result.
Along with a few other users, I've posted some useful links and info in the community over there. It looks like that work is starting to pay off.
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in reply to Zak • • •Be the change you want to see, I've been sending links like piefed.social/post/1062918 to friends and family when I see interesting things or funny memes
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in reply to schnurrito • • •Sure but it creates tragic, and they might click around and subscribe, maybe search for it in the future.
It's a marathon not a sprint
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in reply to Ek-Hou-Van-Braai • • •On my flashlight review website, every article links to a corresponding post on !flashlight@lemmy.world and displays comments from there.
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in reply to ayyy • • •I'd like to ask it the other way around: How many people would it need until you'd say "Yep, that's a community alright."?
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in reply to countrypunk • • •Depends on the search engine you use. I started giving Kagi a try and it has options to increase visibility of fediverse content in your searches.
I'd guess it's a mix of fediverse being a poor fit for ad-oriented SEO and relatively low adoption.