Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts

Nahlej@lemmy.world to Technology@beehaw.org – 330 points –
Google is getting a lot worse because of the Reddit blackouts
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The federated nature of instances unfortunately might nerf the SEO because they're from different domains. Google wouldn't value instance_1. com more because the clicks to related_instance_2. com are higher.

I'd imagine if/when the fediverse becomes popular, search engines will account for this.

I thought links between domains helped pagerank score? Mind you, it's been a while since I learned SEO. A lot of the content, especially the federated stuff, seems to be loaded via javascript. I wonder if that affects what can be indexed.

Theres more to it than that, vut it does help. However, the base issue here I think is that they just don't crawl the federated space yet.