a restriction of a website limiting access to content requiring payment, frequently used by online newspapers
Questions tagged [paywall]
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isAccessibleForFree and paywalled content delivered to Googlebots
I've got a site with some paywalled articles. We want to ensure that Googlebots can index the paywalled content, but we don't want to be accused of cloaking.
I've got two types of articles:
Premium articles, which use a backend paywall.
If the user…
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How to properly implement paywalled content
To avoid cloaking, I'm planing to indicate paywalled content on reviews, but I'm struggling how to format both JSON-LD and HTML:
Should I add hasPart and isAccessibleForFree keywords for each Review?
(apparently LocalBusiness doesn't accept hasPart…
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How do Google and Yahoo fetch content for pages behind a paywall or registration wall?
How do Google and Yahoo fetch content for pages that are behind a paywall or registration wall? I noticed that search results can show content that is not visible publicly without a paid or registered account, including in the page source and meta…
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How to specify paywall contents for multiple pages
I am reading this guide to apply paywall contents to my website so that Google knows I am not cloaking. Unless I have misunderstood something, the example in that guide only deals with 1 particular subpage https://example.org/article and this way of…
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isAccessibleForFree and cloaking
I need an advice regarding isAccessibleForFree and cloaking.
I'm running a subscription based news website which has standard free to view teaser (short description) and the full article.
When user comes to the website, server knows is this a…
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Programmatically generating tags to mark content as paywalled
We are trying to implement the flexible-sampling feature to help the search engine to index paywalled content.
The example on Google Developper is quiet clear but maybe to simple:…
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Do search engines crawl the contents of the details tag?
I'm working with some pages that are only partially visible because most of the content is behind a paywall. In order to help the page be discoverable in organic searches, I am in the process of manually combing through each article, grabbing…
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