I was wondering if the nature of decentralization would negatively affect SEO, since people can access the same post from many different instance
https://lemmy.ml/robots.txt , https://lemmy.world/robots.txt , etc don’t seem to disallow posts, so the text-based content should be easy to index, at least for these instances.
related news: Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts.
How long does it usually take for google to index websites? Because I tried the string
lemmy site:lemmy.ml after:2023-06-15and only one post turned up for me and it wasMemes… the current state of affairs does not seem promising 😔 And if I tried with another instance with the same keywordslemmy site:kbin.social after:2023-06-15nothing even turned up.I wonder though, will search engines adapt to Lemmy and its fediverse system? Or will search engines die? Or will we see dedicated search engines to search through the fediverse?
How long does it usually take for google to index websites?
Anything between a couple of hours to more than a week, I don’t think having a “real-time feed” through Google is important though. Other than world cup scores, their results were never about speed.
I tried searching for the title of this post verbatim and it isn’t in google results period.
That could just be because of lag between when the post is created and when the Google crawler finds/indexes the page
