Re:WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Re...
by dragonwriter on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:51PM
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If you want to pay for good journalism, then rankings WSJ higher hasn't made a since several years before the News Corp. takeover.
More to the point, though, if you have an affinity for WSJ and similar content, yes, Google will probably pick that up over time, though getting a big enough boost to outweigh the cloaking penalty completely may be difficult.
OTOH, if the WSJ is useful to.you even with a hard paywalled—that is, if you are a paying subscriber—you'll presumably have it bookmarked and it will be on of your go to direcrt sources for news; you won't need discovery through Google to find content there very often.
More to the point, though, if you have an affinity for WSJ and similar content, yes, Google will probably pick that up over time, though getting a big enough boost to outweigh the cloaking penalty completely may be difficult.
OTOH, if the WSJ is useful to.you even with a hard paywalled—that is, if you are a paying subscriber—you'll presumably have it bookmarked and it will be on of your go to direcrt sources for news; you won't need discovery through Google to find content there very often.