Hmm, sounds like a good point. Here’s my sub:
https://lemm.ee/c/eurographicnovels

Can you tell me how our formatting might be messing search engines and stuff…?

(unlike Reddit, for example)

I use bold and italic a lot in post titles. Some of the other stuff wouldn’t make much sense I don’t think, but every little bit helps.

Just make a community. Build it, they will come.

This is exactly what I’ve done, but I must say that in the particular community’s case, it hasn’t been easy. We’re going on 1.5yrs now, 900+ subscribers, and I’ve personally contributed ~360 posts (most of them curated mini-articles) out of 466 total posts, yet the sub still essentially needs me to provide the content.

So IME, niche-type subs can take a hell of a lot of work to take off, and we’re not even that much of a niche.