Hello I read somewhere that google bots scan your site and crawl for seo… if my blog is having member post then what should i do??

Maybe set your main article as paywalled, then duplicate it and set it free with another URL…that way google will find the 2nd article and so you don’t lose out on search traffic So your site visitors see the paywalled article, while google queries lead to your free article

Eeeh…but what would be the point then of having any article paywalled at all? If it’s freely available and findable with Google? Or am I missing something maybe, I’m not an expert here?

I am assuming there are 2 sources of traffic: search and organic…so your own crowd that knows your brand, gets your newsletters, viral forwards, etc…all those would be confronted with the paywall someone who finds an article through search, gets to read that article for free, but as they browse the…

Paywalled content is not indexed, apparently, so I would think there are no duplicate content issue.

Hey everyone! Google can’t crawl protected content on your page, because that’s only ever available to logged in members, but Google can crawl the page itself. That means when your member-only page is crawled, Google will only be able to take into account the logged-out, unprotected content. Membe…

Duplicate content is never a good idea or practice from what I know. On top of that, what’s the point having it available for free if you want to use the paywall?

The idea that immediately comes to mind is to use the excerpt and that way, provide crawlable content for search engines while keeping whatever else behind the paywall.

Will members only post affect seo?

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Caucasus-and-Mercury March 26, 2021, 7:14pm 7

I don’t think member posts are indexed at all, because they shouldn’t be. Iwas told so here.

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Will members only post affect seo?

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