So, as per images below, when you search for an Australian community associated with lemmy, lemmy.world is more likely to come up than Aussie Zone in all i’ve tried, bar Melbourne our most active community.

My question: Is this a problem we should consider intentional action to correct? And if so what could we do?

    • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Should just be able to do it with one rule of Disallow: /c/*@*, I think?

      I forgot that federated posts are just under /post/* like local ones are. You’d have to block each federated post individually. Not sure if you can do that on each individual page? Certainly adding every federated post to the top-level robots.txt isn’t feasible.

      • Nothing4YouEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        Posts have a canonical reference to the originating instance, e.g. this post contains <link data-inferno-helmet="true" rel="canonical" href="https://aussie.zone/post/11962005"> for me. This is a hint for search engines to ignore this post and instead index the original one instead. The same also already works for communities, this community containing <link data-inferno-helmet="true" rel="canonical" href="https://aussie.zone/c/meta">. Not sure if DDG is just ignoring this or there’s another reason for it to show up multiple times.

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneOP
      1·
      5 months ago

      Unsurprisingly i know next to nothing about Google Search Console. Looks like it could help though. At the very least you’ve given me an avenue to explore and build my own knowledge. Thank you!