honestly we should have collectively realized way earlier that putting all the useful, readable, un-touched-by-SEO help content for basically every niche hobby fandom and ideology in the hands of one for-profit entity was not very wisdom-pilled of us
we should have collectively realized way earlier
some people have, but whenever you’d mention it, you’d be met with “lol take the tinfoil hat off”, “but we’re already using [for-profit platform] why would we move when everyone’s here” and “but it’s haaaaaaard”.
Source: https://xkcd.com/743/
The fact that the alt-text directly mentions Diaspora is more than amusing in this context
Need some bots to start porting all those posts over to Lemmy lol.
GOOD!
Had this happen today. Was searching for some programming related stuff and top pages are all inaccessible Reddit posts.
Same, but it’s just growing pains.
We should start rewriting posts in lemmy with the correct information.
Sad thing is most search engines suck/haven’t really indexed mostly anything in the fediverse. Wonder why
The fediverse is really not good for big companies. It cannot be monetized or controlled.
It’s obvious you know this, but we just need a search engine that’s tuned to search the fediverse.
So… How is Lemmy set for SEO?
It’s not, lol
SEO as a concept needs to die. dont get me wrong i want Lemmy to show up in google results but doing that by spamming keywords and unrelated “related” posits is not the move
Then what is the correct move? How do I locate content related to keywords?
wish i knew, maybe something with AI?
the reality is that current-day SEO isn’t even Optimization, it’s Lying. try googling a recipe or an alternative to a popular software and see how the first four pages are all ad-ridden, useless spam-bot articles designed to retain users rather than give them the information they are looking for
exactly my point–neither of these (excellent) sites will show up in your standard google search because they have the integrity not to abuse SEO
