cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585

You should use archive.org or archive.today links.

The best way to influence the Domain Authority metric is to improve your site’s overall SEO health, with a particular focus on the quality and quantity of external links pointing to your site.

You can use the Wayback machine addon to easily get archived links https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wayback-machine_new/.

And a bookmarklet for archive.today:

javascript:void(open('https://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))

FYI, if you’re worried about archive.today going down and references being lost, you can manually leave in the original URL by adding https://archive.ph/o/ in front of any URL, after you archive it. IE: https://archive.ph/o/https://sh.itjust.works/post/26060585 will redirect to the archived page, if it exists.

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 month ago

    in any case both the page and the Lemmy software definitely “knows” the origin of the post, as well as the destination point too. So bidirectional linkages seem like they could always be made?

    It does not. As I said above, the software uses the URLs to identify crossposts and shows them as such.

    If there is no URL, then it does not know if there is a crosspost.

    That might be improved, as you suggested, but that’s not the way the software works now