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Will Lemmy posts be indexed by search engines? (self.lemmy_support)

submitted 1 year ago by zephyr to c/[email protected]

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[–] savjee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a good point. The same content exists on multiple instances. I think Lemmy should set a canonical URL the HTML . The canonical URL of each post should point to the instance where a post originates from.

Seems like that is not implemented in Lemmy. Also checked Mastodon, and doesn't have a canonical tag either.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls#rel-canonical-link-method

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On browser, I see a little fediversee icon next to every post/comment that links to the canonical. I don't think traditional html search engines know how to index it, though. Probably better if we have our own lemmy search engine like browse.feddit.de