The federated nature of instances unfortunately might nerf the SEO because they’re from different domains. Google wouldn’t value instance_1. com more because the clicks to related_instance_2. com are higher.
If it’s done right, it’s still indexable because in the first render the content is delivered with HTML. On subsequent clicks, the browser fetches via JavaScript, but the URL in the browser still changes and if you refresh, the page is fetched containing the content again.
That’s important not only for search engines, but also for screen readers, fast rendering and devises without JavaScript. I think Google is totally able to index JavaScript generated content, but pages will get a higher rank if it’s done in an accessible way.
The federated nature of instances unfortunately might nerf the SEO because they’re from different domains. Google wouldn’t value instance_1. com more because the clicks to related_instance_2. com are higher.
I’d imagine if/when the fediverse becomes popular, search engines will account for this.
I think so, too.
I thought links between domains helped pagerank score? Mind you, it’s been a while since I learned SEO.
Theres more to it than that, vut it does help. However, the base issue here I think is that they just don’t crawl the federated space yet.
If it’s done right, it’s still indexable because in the first render the content is delivered with HTML. On subsequent clicks, the browser fetches via JavaScript, but the URL in the browser still changes and if you refresh, the page is fetched containing the content again.
That’s important not only for search engines, but also for screen readers, fast rendering and devises without JavaScript. I think Google is totally able to index JavaScript generated content, but pages will get a higher rank if it’s done in an accessible way.