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This is what I came to say. Not sure why that works, but it does!
by jhwhite 10y ago
This is what I came to say. Not sure why that works, but it does!
- elorant 10y agoBecause due to a black hat trick called cloaking [1], Google penalizes pages that show different content to users and crawlers. So web sites serve a free version of their content to Google. [1] https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66355?hl=en
- bluehazed 10y agoThis is a "black hat trick"?
- robotnixon 10y agoGoogle discourages websites from appearing in search but requiring registration to view. If the website detects that the user came from a Google search, they don't throw up the paywall.
- Coincoin 10y agoBecause google will ban the page if the crawled content is not the same as the displayed content when you click their link.