Re:Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
by joegahona on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @08:37PM
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> Google will only include your content in their search results if the user can see your content.
That's not true for the WSJ.
Re:Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
by creato on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @09:29PM
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They seem to allow enough of their pages to appear to enable Google to see it. I can always see the first few sentences and the titles of WSJ articles, that's probably what google can see too.
Re:Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
by joegahona on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:01PM
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I don't think it's that -- the amount shown to Google isn't enough to provide any kind of meaningful SEO. My guess is WSJ has something worked out with Google.
Re:Google unlocks 33% of publisher paywalls on July 30
by Spivak on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @07:31PM
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> The "metered paywall" trick is a loophole to get around that.
Do keep in mind that this isn't so much a loophole, but an agreement that Google made with publishers so that they could stay ranked on Google. In the wake of this they might reach a different agreement.
If Google had a setting for "I am a subscriber to x,y,z -- please include them in my results" I would be so happy. I want to tell Google that I'm a Red Hat subscriber and want their KB articles first.
Google will only include your content in their search results if the user can see your content. The "metered paywall" trick is a loophole to get around that.
If you put all your content behind a paywall, you're siloing yourself off from the entire rest of the internet, at least as far as discoverability goes.