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Duplicated content across multiple sites, different names, lack of canonical sources ( https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-d
by shagie 3y ago
Duplicated content across multiple sites, different names, lack of canonical sources ( https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/... ), not exactly SEO friendly urls (.../post/{int} vs .../r/sub/comments/{id}/title_of_post/ ),
As long as those issues persist (and the post title is likely a hard one), Reddit will always have an advantage since it's built to be more SEO friendly.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/261 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/261
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1285 https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1285
- GabeIsko 3y agoReddit may be more SEO friendly for now, but if it's content suffers and search results are degraded, search engines will probably to look to change how they rank results.
- shagie 3y agoThe first problem to fix - https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-lemmy-world-post-231236/9o7dcgqp43?form_factor=desktop https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-lemmy-world-post-23... > Links are not crawlable > To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app. Without that resolved, it really doesn't matter.