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wakasm Jul 15, 2023

How come there is very little Kbin SEO for individual posts? Also, what are tags/badges?

Maybe someone smarter than me can explain things, but It's been about a month since I've started the process of creating a magazine to support the reddit/discord community I've helped mod for the past 4 years... but I've noticed that zero posts show up in google search.... #RedditMigration

https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/199614

How come there is very little Kbin SEO for individual posts? Also, what are tags/badges? - RedditMigration - kbin.social

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raphael Jul 15, 2023

kbin.social disallows crawlers to index the site. And honest crawlers will honor that.
https://kbin.social/robots.txt

This actually seems to be the standard configuration that kbin ships with, so most instances will have that in place.

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wakasm Jul 15, 2023

Thanks, I totally forgot that robots.txt existed. Since you are replying, do you know the difference between badges and tags?

I wonder if there some way for instances to use the canonical tag to point to the original and make it less annoying for search engines.

That said, I guess id rather see it crawled and let search engines figure it out then have it not crawled at all. Not really sure where that feedback goes though.

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anemomylos

"Tags" are similar to twitter hashtags, you can use them to categorize a post. For example, if you create a post about Android you can add the tag "android" (without "#"). When you manage a magazine you can add one or more tags (always without "#") to see posts of the fediverse with that tag.
I have no idea about "badges" :)