MASTODON POSTS GETTING NOTICED ON THE WEB
Mastodon Post
Google claims that it has been indexing this server, C.IM, for ten years. Not that I've noticed. Nonetheless, with some apparent lack of expertise on their part, Google is effectively indexing some of our posts.
Some of the indexing works. Some of it doesn't. For instance, a supposed link to a post of mine about the music band, Roomful of Blues, actually links to whatever post I have made most recently. Not good.
Nonetheless Pt. 2, I am really glad that some of my posts are getting indexed and that a decent amount of the indexing works as it should. You may be glad too. This could be a lot worse.
To take advantage of the indexing that functions properly, I have taken to including
Mastodon Post
prominently in my posts. An example is at the top of this post. That way, the vast majority of Web searchers who have no idea what C.IM means can get the idea that they are seeing something via Mastodon. I am also trying to do better at getting names and terms in my hashtags also represented in the post's main text. Not sure how many people search the Web on a briantylercohen hashtag, but probably a heck of a lot of people run Web searches on Brian Tyler Cohen.
Just some thoughts as to how we might be able to get more help from our friends at Google to attract more attention to things we make a real effort to put out there.
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#briantylercohen #cdotim #cim #democrats #google #mastodon #roomfulofblues
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Jonathan Emmesedi
Alan Lewis