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No, if reddit does that they lose a giant amount of traffic. And reddit search sucks they should improve it first if they want that. But also for many things yo

by Yujf 3y ago

No, if reddit does that they lose a giant amount of traffic. And reddit search sucks they should improve it first if they want that. But also for many things you do not necessarily search for reddit but just search a question and reddit turns up in search results. If that goes away, reddit will have less visits and become way less usefull for many things

CommitSyn 3y ago
They could combine it with the newspaper model and show 3 open posts to unregistered members before asking them to register. That way Google still allows full indexing.
chrischen 3y ago
Honestly the traffic reddit gets from google is probably << traffic from organic reddit users. Even for myself as a non-Reddit user I intentionally search Reddit through Google. What you say holds true for smaller sites, but there's a reason Facebook blocks Google indexing (for the most part), and it's because Facebook wants people to be using Facebook, not Google. Even if Reddit loses some search traffic they shouldn't be giving up that control. It's not like people don't know what reddit is, or that the app isn't sticky (it's obviously very sticky).
- johnnyanmac 3y ago
  >the traffic reddit gets from google is probably << traffic from organic reddit users. I question "<<" at this point. Maybe "<", but the gap isn't as large as you expect. It's not going to be as impactful as r/all being removed, but removing google searchability would probaly do more harm to traffic than it does benefit to the site. >here's a reason Facebook blocks Google indexing (for the most part), and it's because Facebook wants people to be using Facebook, not Google. I think it's more because Facebook is an inherently more private site. It has public groups but Facebook wasn't made (by default) to have every post you make be searchable from Google. You search on Facebook for people, and you care about who they are. You search for content on reddit and don't care who redditors are.
  - chrischen 3y ago
    Modern social media usage is definitely not private. People do stuff to be seen and both Instagram and TikTok exploit users wanting to go viral. For Facebook, it was only private in the sense that the greater general public couldn't see your content, but that's really just unrelated third parties and Google. The stuff you post on Facebook was effectively public in the people around you could all see it.

by Yujf 3y ago

CommitSyn 3y ago

They could combine it with the newspaper model and show 3 open posts to unregistered members before asking them to register. That way Google still allows full indexing.

chrischen 3y ago

Honestly the traffic reddit gets from google is probably << traffic from organic reddit users. Even for myself as a non-Reddit user I intentionally search Reddit through Google. What you say holds true for smaller sites, but there's a reason Facebook blocks Google indexing (for the most part), and it's because Facebook wants people to be using Facebook, not Google. Even if Reddit loses some search traffic they shouldn't be giving up that control. It's not like people don't know what reddit is, or that the app isn't sticky (it's obviously very sticky).

johnnyanmac 3y ago
>the traffic reddit gets from google is probably << traffic from organic reddit users. I question "<<" at this point. Maybe "<", but the gap isn't as large as you expect. It's not going to be as impactful as r/all being removed, but removing google searchability would probaly do more harm to traffic than it does benefit to the site. >here's a reason Facebook blocks Google indexing (for the most part), and it's because Facebook wants people to be using Facebook, not Google. I think it's more because Facebook is an inherently more private site. It has public groups but Facebook wasn't made (by default) to have every post you make be searchable from Google. You search on Facebook for people, and you care about who they are. You search for content on reddit and don't care who redditors are.
- chrischen 3y ago
  Modern social media usage is definitely not private. People do stuff to be seen and both Instagram and TikTok exploit users wanting to go viral. For Facebook, it was only private in the sense that the greater general public couldn't see your content, but that's really just unrelated third parties and Google. The stuff you post on Facebook was effectively public in the people around you could all see it.