Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results?

Posted by krembo on Monday April 07, 2014 @03:32AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Although it is one of the most popular discussion boards on the internet, only rarely you see them in Google search results. Any ideas?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by bjourne on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:22AM (#7545433)

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1jyo8k/why_d...

Found the link, ironically, by googling for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by krembo on Monday April 07, 2014 @08:13AM (#7545986)

well, apparently it is related to the robots.txt, however this is very weird as reddit are leaving alot of traffic behind.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by _hadrian_ on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @11:42PM (#7595968)

Probably due to a lot of poor quality content. Have you seen the front page of Reddit these days if you log out? Imagine reddit results along with all those crummy wikihow and expertsexchange results.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by nemasu on Monday April 07, 2014 @03:33AM (#7545099)

I have no idea, but looking at their robots file made me laugh:

User-Agent: bender Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass

User-Agent: Gort Disallow: /earth

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by karishmasibal on Monday April 07, 2014 @02:30PM (#7548320)

Yes even I haven't seen any google result showing reddit links.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by SixSigma on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:45AM (#7545519)

If you want links from reddit use the site tag :

    portify site:reddit.com

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by dm2 on Monday April 07, 2014 @06:31AM (#7545672)

When I search for "portify reddit" (without quotes) the first result is from reddit.com, in both my logged in search results and from an incognito window.

Is there an example of a Google search phrase that reddit.com should rank higher for?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is Reddit so poorly ranked in Google results? by SixSigma on Monday April 07, 2014 @09:10AM (#7546241)

Yep. I got that search term from a link in the comments complaining that the link wasn't top.

I have no idea about other searches.

What I do know is that the worst search engine for searching reddit is the one on reddit.

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