Lemmy is not opimized for google. There is some consideration when you run a full-javascript app like Lemmy, and to the best of my knowledge, Lemmy didn't follow their guideline.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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If lemmy takes off, like Reddit, and has lots of content, google will adjust their algorithm to compensate and include it. Lemmy will likely focus on better SEO if it helps growth, but scaling and stability and usability are more important right now.
Guidelines are for little guys!
It can take weeks for things to show up in a search engine and then it might not be ranked highly if it is. Right now Lemmy does show up in search results, you can see if you search for site:Lemmy.world, it's just ranked low. Give it time and have more people post here and eventually things will show up closer to the top of google search results.
Give it time. They might be able to implement something. More development effort is being directed at the Fediverse now which might've been the biggest obstacle. It's hard work building and maintaining this stuff from scratch.
Fedisearch exists and LemmySearch should have a public website Soonβ’οΈ
It'll take some time to settle everything up
We need content for them to search.
Because google indexes wherever the content is. That's all.
What are you trying to search?
I see some Lemmy results quite fine. Google results need some time to be indexed.
I'm sure it will be someday, but it's so new, I don't think the devs are focused on that right now. Mostly, I want them to focus on fixing the platform right now and making it better. Stuff like better mod tools, better local sorting and filtering, some better discoverability and searching features, universal @mentions, better ways to interface with other servers, etc. It will come in time, I'm sure. I think lemmy and activitypub as a whole weren't quite ready for the reddit exodus.