Google Crawlers and Ghost Paid Membership

[rickdonato]

Hi,

Using ghost v3 and testing out the membership/stripe integration. So far all good. However, does anyone know if there is any logic within Ghost that will perform Google spiders (or other search engines) to crawl the content that is behind the membership system?

[vikaspotluri123]

Hey @rickdonato

Check out this forum post

How subscription works in Ghost 3.0?

Hey @artofbryce. Google will only be able to crawl the logged out content on a members only or paid-members only page. Member only content isn’t really designed to perform well in the search engines since it’s always behind a log in. If you’d like to have content on your site that is intended to rank and drive organic traffic then you can use the public content post access level and optimise those pages and posts accordingly using the post settings menu in the editor. Optionally, if you’d like…