• Rhaedas@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I remember the fear as a web developer in making sure changes were good before going live for this very reason. “Please don’t screw up the Google bot crawler and drop the search placement.” I’d love to know if Google searches hitting private Reddit pages did a similar thing.

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      1 year ago

      No. Private subs still showed the topic part of the body and like 4 words of the first comment I think before clicking to see you couldn’t read more. I think r/Homekit is an example of this at one point….

      • jecxjo@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Think they also did all the other SEO stuff like put in extra data with meta tags and all that open search stuff.