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What I don't get is that they could just leave the first two paragraphs and let every see that, then require you to subscribe for more - google would accept tha
by tomjen3 10y ago
What I don't get is that they could just leave the first two paragraphs and let every see that, then require you to subscribe for more - google would accept that and they would still show up in search, right?
- tyingq 10y agoThey could, but then only those two paragraphs would be indexed. That would make the content less rich, less relevant, so it wouldn't rank as high. That's for the normal organic search results. I don't know the policy for showing up in Google news and the carousel. I suspect it wouldn't be allowed. Edit: You can be subscription-only and be in Google news, but you have to show the same limited snippet to both Google and end users. And you get 'tagged' in the UI as subscription only. https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en
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- glenneroo 10y agoThat's what Experts Exchange was doing. Back in the days before Stack Overflow, EE was one of the hot places to go for answers to software engineering problems. It was a free site for many years, then one day they decided to require a subscription to read the answers. Google still indexed the question, so that you would open up a EE link, only to be greeted with "the answer requires a subscription". Google allowed that for a number of years before finally deindexing their results, but it took bloody forever!
- dawnerd 10y agoIf I remember correctly EE had the real answers waaaaaay down on the page. They were banking on people not scrolling.
- pitay 10y agoFrom memory you could scroll to get the results IF it detected you clicked on a google search result to get there, otherwise the answers were not displayed.