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I support subscription content. But you can't have your cake and eat it too -- in other words, you can't put content behind a paywall and also have it publicly
by hire_charts 11y ago
I support subscription content. But you can't have your cake and eat it too -- in other words, you can't put content behind a paywall and also have it publicly indexed by search engines.
Remove the trick where it's okay for Google searches to circumvent the paywall and this extension becomes useless.
- manigandham 11y agoWhy not? So paywall content is not good enough? It's just a different business model by publishers: free access with ads or pay for access. Why does that penalize the content itself and the discovery of it?
- hire_charts 11y agoWhat's happening here is that it's not just "free access with ads or pay for access." It's "free access if you came from google, so that google can index our pages, but otherwise pay for access so that we can put the same content behind a paywall." It's less a business model and more an SEO trick that Google puts up with under certain conditions.