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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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 67 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not much links to it. It's really rare that I see a blog, social media, or non-fediverse forum post link to a Lemmy post. That sort of thing still matters quite a bit to search engines.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Be the change you want to see, I've been sending links like https://piefed.social/post/1062918 to friends and family when I see interesting things or funny memes

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see

On my flashlight review website, every article links to a corresponding post on !flashlight@lemmy.world and displays comments from there.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 4 points 4 days ago

Nice website and idea 👌

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Things you send to friends and family will not be indexed by Google, so that is somewhat useless for this purpose.

[–] Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

Sure but it creates tragic, and they might click around and subscribe, maybe search for it in the future.

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