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I went through the whole thing and it seems, from the video, that they could avoid cloaking by redirecting non-paid users to the sing-up page. This way WSJ wou

I went through the whole thing and it seems, from the video, that they could avoid cloaking by redirecting non-paid users to the sing-up page. This way WSJ would be showing the same (www.wsj.com/Bezos-with-hair) to every user. *based on the video

jacquesm 9y ago
> sing-up page. That's a new one. Buy a subscription to the WSJ now for a song.
squeaky-clean 9y ago
In the video, he stresses pretty hard that all forms of cloaking are disallowed, even if not malicious or deceiving. Unless the Googlebot has a paid subscription to WSJ that's still cloaking, as you're showing Googlebot a different page than a regular user. Google's rules and help documents are spread all over, but here's some from Google News about subscriptions: "If you prefer this option, please display a snippet of your article that is at least 80 words long and includes either an excerpt or a summary of the specific article. Since we do not permit "cloaking" -- the practice of showing Googlebot a full version of your article while showing users the subscription or registration version -- we will only crawl and display your content based on the article snippets you provide." edit, forgot link: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en