This seems like a good way to give google all my pertinent information
without giving away the whole site. I am surprised no one has
mentioned this before.
If I serve member only content to googlebot and to users referred from
any other site than my own, and serve restricted content to non-
members referred from my site internally, does this violate google's
webmaster policies? (Not that it really matters, because googles
search results still don't return anything relevant for my search
terms).
> > Actually, first-click-free is something that is currently reserved for
> > Google News, so this is not something that can be used for web
> > search.
Serving different content to the Googlebot than to the average visitor
is considered cloaking and is highly discouraged. If you want to have
member-only content listed in our index, one way would be to provide
only a small part of the content to all users (including the
Googlebot). If that part of the page is relevant enough, it may be
used in the snippet in the search results, and if the page itself is
compelling enough, a user may be interested in purchasing access to
the content itself. If the average (non-paying) user sees the same
content as the Googlebot, this kind of setup is generally fine with
us. If the Googlebot sees more than the user, then it's obviously not
something which we would like to see in our index.
the average non-paying user would see the same page as googlebot
providing he accesses that page from outside of tuscl.com (i.e. from
search results on google, should I ever show up in them again). Is
that considered cloaking?
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