You should use archive.org or archive.today links.

The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.

You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.

And a bookmarklet for archive.today:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

FYI, if you’re worried about archive.today going down and references being lost, you can manually leave in the original URL by adding https://archive.ph/o/ in front of any URL, after you archive it. IE: https://archive.ph/o/https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585 will redirect to the archived page, if it exists.

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    9•3 months ago

    SEO ranking is relative. IE: if reddit and lemmy have the same post title, the reddit one will show up higher since it has a higher domain authority.

    I think this is also the main reason why youtube videos show up as top search results instead of the same video on youtube-alternative sites.

    I think your previous question was clearer, so I’ll just link to it: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25867272/14197383

    My response:

    I’m no SEO expert, but search engines penalize websites for gaming the system. I’ve already read someone suggest 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 though.

    • @muntedcrocodile
      3•3 months ago

      Weve put ourselves in a bit of a pickle with seo. Cos either google continues to treat us like spam gaming the system or they dont. If they dont we will effectively be gaming the system. What would be nice is an easy way for engined to identify fedi content and treat it as a single site for ranking purposes. Then again fuck search engines we need something foss.

      • unalivejoyEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        Lemmy adds a rel="canonical" link to every post. Google should be able to understand that and make every page with the same canonical link go to the same page. I think other sites who have many domains with the same content, like medium, do the same thing.

        • @muntedcrocodile
          1•3 months ago

          Had a look at the relevent github issue and it seems that it simply back links each individual post to its originating instance so we unfortunatly dont get combined domain ranking for the fediverse as a whole just each post.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
      1•3 months ago

      Interesting, re: the spam theory.

      I do know that some of my dinkum posts on here are among the first page results for whatever the object in question is, but I’m not sure if that’s due to Google somehow deciding it’s a highly relevant match or if it’s just because some of this crap is so damn niche that there isn’t any other content on it.

      For example, this, where I’m result #2 only after the Amazon product page. Or this, where I’m #7. Also #7 here. For this I’m result #2 which is above Walmart’s listing for their own product.

      Okay, okay, this one is almost a Googlewhack, but I’m occupying both spots #5 and #6 even if you just search for the alleged “manufacturer’s” name. Admittedly, out of only 6 results to begin with. If you add “knife” to the query I rise to position #4.

      …And yet others don’t appear in search results at all. So I can’t say I have any idea how the fuck Google’s search results work.

      • @[email protected]OPEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        I think that has to do with your cookies. Your first one, I see wikipedia at #2, then jstor, then another site, then amazon again. There’s a lemmy.world post at #7.