How Torch or other search engine discover onion websites

[veptune]

Hello,

What is the best way for an onion website to be indexed by a Search Engine on the Dark Web?

OnionLand and Ahmia both have a “Add onion service” page. But how about Torch and others? I guess I have to get some backlinks, if not how can they discover my website?

Does anyone have a Dark Web SEO tutorial to share?

I guess the ranking factors are the same than on the clear net : Content + backlinks

Thanks

[FranklyFlawless]

@veptune

What is the best way for an onion website to be indexed by a Search Engine on the Dark Web?

It has to be shared somehow. You determine what method works best for your threat model.

@veptune

But how about Torch and others? I guess I have to get some backlinks, if not how can they discover my website?

@ahf

I would guess the way others build their Onion Services index is likely from scanning for valid “.onion” strings in various public data sets on the internet. Thus slowly building up a corpus of available Onion Services.

@veptune

Does anyone have a Dark Web SEO tutorial to share?

No, but I do have resources for you to carefully consider.

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