Google Comments On Making Mastodon More Search Engine Friendly
There is an interesting thread on Mastodon where Danny Sullivan and John Mueller, both of who work at Google, talk about making Mastodon more search-engine friendly. The thread was started by Gabe Rivera of Techmeme, when he wanted a way to search Mastodon.
Here is a link to part of the thread on Mastodon, where Danny Sullivan explains that Google can pick up anything on the web that is not blocked. He said, “will pick up anything on the web including Mastodon pages that aren’t blocked to search engines.” You can of course block your Mastodon posts from being indexed, Danny said “and any individual who doesn’t want their posts indexed can use Preferences > Opt-out of search engine indexing.”
Google will learn how to detect good content on this social network. Danny added, “Over time, if our systems learn there’s a lot of helpful, fresh content from a source, they tend to speed up the indexing of it. But there can be things site owners (or instance owners!) can do.”