For example, if you’ve made a world building religion generator, and you title it “The Arch Bible” or something like that (i.e. something that’s more of a “brand” than a “description”), then people won’t be able to use a web search engine to find it unless they already know its name. In other words, people don’t search for “The Arch Bible” when they want to find a religion generator - they of course search something like “fantasy religion generator” or whatever - so make sure you put keywords like that in your $meta.title/$meta.description if you want to make it easy for others to find it.
Search engines heavily weight the page title in their search, so it definitely pays to have a $meta.title which appropriately summarizes what your generator does in a few words. It’s fine to have something like “Fantasy Religion Generator - The Arch Bible” as your title - i.e. a description, plus a “brand”. Just don’t leave out the key descriptive terms.
I’m writing this post because I don’t think people realize how the “popular” generators on Perchance actually tend to get popular - it’s one of two things:
- (rare & temporary) The generator happened to go viral on social media somehow.
- (common & long-term) The generator’s title and/or description was descriptive, and so random people around the world each day hit their page via a Google search, which can add up to thousands of visitors in just a few months if it’s a popular “topic” that people search for.
Popular generators almost always get popular via #2, and #2 often eventually leads to #1 - i.e. people find it via a search engine, and then share it with their friends on social media, and then at some point (for whatever reason) it goes viral. I think people tend to incorrectly assume that #1 is the main factor in a generator’s popularity (it can be, but it’s rare).
TL;DR: Use appropriate descriptive terms in your title and description if you’d like your generator to become well known. Think about the sorts of keywords that people would type into a search engine to find your generator.
@perchance@lemmy.world Are private genratiors hidden behind a robots.txt that prevent the massive Google webcrawler from indexing them
Probably not, they only disallow and allow some Google subpages. Also @perchance@lemmy.world this could be on a different post/explanation.
No, “private” actually just means “not listed anywhere” (e.g. on /generators). If you don’t link it anywhere publicly, then Google won’t be able to find it, but if you do e.g. post it to social media that Google can access, or link it on your blog, then Google will index it and people will be able to find it via a Google search.