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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by chongli on Monday June 05, 2023 @10:48AM (#36196918)
"This structured data helps Google differentiate paywalled content from the practice of cloaking, which violates spam policies."

Which is just nonsense. A paywalled site showing different content to GoogleBot than to ordinary users is cloaking.

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Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF? by account42 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @09:14AM (#36212171)
There was a time that Google tried to prevent SEO. Now Google hosts and attends SEO conferences.
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