I have a theory that #indieweb #webmentions like we see on Wordpress, help excite Googlebot. Webmentions, between blogs encourage longer, more frequesnt replies/comments to a post. Googlebot responds to that added activity and text. Sample is limited tho.

@bradenslen Still, encouraging.

@smokey Yes, all said, it is a good thing.

@bradenslen It would be in Google’s interest to support non-siloed indexable content, so I would not be surprised if this were a feature of The Bot.

@bradenslen 👍 I do this with my self-hosted WP blog. I have it set to moderate before posting, which I think would be a new feature for micro.blog so it’s reasonable that it would be a bit of work to implement thoughtfully.

@fgtech Yeah, I've switched my blog back and forth from MB to WP and back again and noticing the difference in traffic, comment length and frequency and search engine bot behavior. Not having displayed webmentions and comments is IMHO a liability. WP with Indieweb is a better setup.

@bix Also anti-spam as part of the moderatiom process. It's not easy, but I think needed for blogs. Especially blogs that post lots of long form posts. @fgtech