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  • The links just need to have a “no follow” attribute (which is something that Lemmy could add, if they haven’t already).

    Sounds like a good suggestion to make on github. I don’t know how easy it would be to do that for only reddit links, and I’m not sure how the devs would feel about that.

    Also, from your link:

    The correlation for the number of “dofollow” backlinks is a little bit weaker than that of the total number of backlinks.

    Here’s what Tim said about this:

    This could be an indication that Google values some nofollowed links from strong pages more than followed links from weak pages. #whoknows Tim Soulo Tim Soulo, CMO Ahrefs

    Take this finding with a large pinch of salt. The primary aim of this study was not to analyze the impact of nofollowed vs. followed links and as such, we didn’t make any effort to isolate this factor.

    But even if we assume that nofollowed links have no direct impact on SEO, they can still have an indirect impact because: They help diversify your link profile

    Natural backlink profiles are diverse.





  • Anon518toReddit@lemmy.worldReddit now promotes posts with 0 karmaEnglish
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    I’m no SEO expert, but search engines penalize websites for gaming the system. I’ve already read some suggestions that Google is not sure what to do with the fediverse because it already looks like spam, and that may be why it doesn’t show up often in search results. That’s beyond my knowledge.


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    It reminds me of people who added Invidious links back in the day, but over time the individious instances would go down, preventing people from knowing which content was initially linked.

    Yes, the archive.today links have that risk, but not the archive.org ones. Also, you can manually modify archive.today links to show the original link.

    With the way this seems to works, can’t we just create thousands of links to let’s say Lemmy.world from all the other instances, to boost the LW domain authority? Shouldn’t all the crossposts links be taken into account in this calculation?

    That might be one reason lemmy.world has a relatively high domain authority.

    And if yes, then do 3 links here really make a difference?

    Your 3 links won’t make a difference. Starting a trend and spreading the word will.










  • Linking directly to reddit helps them show up at the top of search results. Use archive websites.

    The person who created the “List of Active Reddit Alternatives” is a dev who helped work on saidit.net. They deleted the post themselves and quit being a mod of that redditalternatives sub; due to their disgust with reddit and many of the users on it.

    That subreddit is not trustworthy now. I recall someone sharing evidence of content they’re censoring.