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The biggest reason why they have not done this so far is SEO. If you introduce the 'click wrap' - other crawlers like Google won't be able to crawl it, so their
by isalmon 9y ago
The biggest reason why they have not done this so far is SEO. If you introduce the 'click wrap' - other crawlers like Google won't be able to crawl it, so their traffic will decrease overnight.
- dawnerd 9y agoThey'd most certainly whitelist the google ips.
- fooey 9y agothat's against TOS for Google SERPs Showing different results to google than you do to users is called cloaking and it's not allowed
- dawnerd 9y agoDefinitely, but someone at LinkedIn could get in touch with their google contact and make it all work and follow the rules. https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en Apparently, we had something similar at Demand Media before the panda update.
- WikipediasBad 9y agoHow does one build such google contacts if you are a seed stage startup? I understand it wouldn't be the same league as LinkedIn Reid Hoffman level contacts, but even some kind of contact at Google search?
- dawnerd 9y agoI wish I knew. Easiest way is to make a ton of money off google ads like we did. Even then it was hard to actually talk to someone - especially at YouTube. And they had an office a few floors up...
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