The main engine for discoverability for small Indy sites is google, and google lost the fight against seo spam sometime in the last 5 years. Independent sites a

The main engine for discoverability for small Indy sites is google, and google lost the fight against seo spam sometime in the last 5 years. Independent sites are hard to find now, so you have to promote them via the closed networks (at least, the ones that allow you to link outside themselves — many do not, or they restrict it)