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Step 2: Put news coverage of the event behind a paywall Step 3: Profit?
by nowarninglabel 16y ago
Step 2: Put news coverage of the event behind a paywall
Step 3: Profit?
- Groxx 16y agoReally? It let me through, and I didn't do anything special... Give http://bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com http://bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com a try. edit: people don't like bugmenot links? It has been immensely useful to me for asinine sign-up-walls.
- chc 16y agoNYTimes.com's paywall kicks in after a certain (fairly low) number of pageviews.
- Groxx 16y agoAaah, did not know that. They do this to all free accounts, I assume? Know if they're one of the ones which do Google referrals? I can never remember who does and who doesn't.
- chc 16y agoYeah, they exempt Google-referred visitors from the wall.
- waterlesscloud 16y agoI'm not sure I understand why they exempt Google refers. Can someone provide an explanation of why it's beneficial for them to exempt Google but not other links?
- whatusername 16y agoeasy. They want Google to index that content and they want to show up in the search index. At one point I think some sites tried showing one thing to Google-bot and a pay-wall to the rest of the Net. But Google realised that was a terrible experience for users -- I've googled somethign and now when I go to the page that google recommends to me - I can't see what I'm looking for. So Google effectively laid down the law -- If you want to show up in Search Results -- then users who have found you via Search need to be able to read what you are showing..
- zoomzoom 16y agoActually, there is no paywall, yet, just need a free user account to get thru the "anon-wall", though I hear they will be adding a true paywall in 2011.
- rms 16y agoNY Times has required an account to sometimes view free content for more than 10 years now. I got an account back then and it still works.