Anon518

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.

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.

Well you still have the direct links, so it doesn't make a difference.

• https://moz.com/learn/seo/domain-authority
• https://moz.com/learn/seo/backlinks

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)))

Linking directly to reddit makes them show up at the top of search results. You should use archive.org or archive.today links.

Curious what made you choose lemmy.zip?

Your title is terrible. Use the article's title.

Open Source Alternatives to Popular Software https://openalternative.co/

Self-hosted software https://selfh.st/apps/

A list of free, self-hosted software https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ - https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Open source (OSS) Blacklist: A blacklist for keeping track of OSS hostile companies/organizations https://sh.itjust.works/post/13060070 - https://codeberg.org/QazCetelic/OSS-Blacklist

He makes claims that need citations.

You should edit the OP too.

I'll upvote you if you add one or more citations for your claims.

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.

How do you find out what mastodon instances block others?