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Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results?
Although it is one of the most popular discussion boards on the internet, only rarely you see them in Google search results. Any ideas?
- nemasu 13y agoI have no idea, but looking at their robots file made me laugh: User-Agent: bender Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass User-Agent: Gort Disallow: /earth
- bjourne 13y agohttp://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1jyo8k/why_does_reddit_seem_to_rank_so_low_on_google/ http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1jyo8k/why_d... Found the link, ironically, by googling for it.
- krembo 13y agowell, apparently it is related to the robots.txt, however this is very weird as reddit are leaving alot of traffic behind.
- SixSigma 13y agoIf you want links from reddit use the site tag : portify site:reddit.com
- dm2 13y agoWhen I search for "portify reddit" (without quotes) the first result is from reddit.com, in both my logged in search results and from an incognito window. Is there an example of a Google search phrase that reddit.com should rank higher for?
- SixSigma 13y agoYep. I got that search term from a link in the comments complaining that the link wasn't top. I have no idea about other searches. What I do know is that the worst search engine for searching reddit is the one on reddit.
- karishmasibal 13y agoYes even I haven't seen any google result showing reddit links.
- _hadrian_ 13y agoProbably due to a lot of poor quality content. Have you seen the front page of Reddit these days if you log out? Imagine reddit results along with all those crummy wikihow and expertsexchange results.