What are your thoughts in making content in this instance more visible in search engines via IndexNow? On a technical level, how feasible is this?
What are your thoughts in making content in this instance more visible in search engines via IndexNow? On a technical level, how feasible is this?
According to this page, Bing and Yandex are some of the biggest engines that have an IndexNow API. Google does not support it as this example index submission URL will return a 404. Note that the key is example.com’s key from the IndexNow docs:
https://google.com/indexnow?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com%2Fproduct.html&key=4067b852d9fe4b8b9cf5383330e6427cIt depends on the instance’s long-term goals. Speaking for myself, post and comment discovery after searching in Google is how I used to find out that niche communities exist in Reddit in the past. Now, I use a Searx instance as my first choice of search engine. Unfortunately, while Searx has a preference option to include lemmy posts in the results, it is useless in my current experience. That leaves indexed pages in search engines as a secondary method of post (and comment, if feasible) discovery.
Here’s what I see if I search for “reddthat” in Bing. There’s a result for the home page and a random post from May 2026:
I tried doing an exact keyword search in Bing for the title of this post (I tried to find a top post from the past month that is in a local community) and nothing showed up.
Counterexample would be searching for “reddit”. The entire front page is Reddit-related in Bing.
I like the idea. I’ll look at sorting it out over the coming weeks maybe with a post to see what the general consensus is from the more active Reddthat people.