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After Google has ended their “First Click Free” policy: Would it be possible to adapt your Google First Click Free Integration Addon to take advantage of the recommended markup for “subscription and paywalled content” (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/data-types/paywalled-content?hl=en).
At least where partial/section protection is *not* used, it should be relatively easy to allow Google access to the full content and to insert the necessary markup to signal which part is available only to members.
I would be interested in such an Addon, and would be happy to lend some help developing it.
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I think wrapping the protected content with something like the following should do for the Bot. Is my understanding correct?
<div class="paywall"> Protected content goes here </div>I think any solution (e.g. a Google-Add-On), will have to do 3-4 things:
- add a class the the content which identifies the paywall’ed part of the page
- add the necssary json to tell Google that there is paywall’ed content and what the CSS class of that content is
- ensure that GoogleBot gets to see the full post (ideally, not identified only by User-Agent, but by reverse DNS lookup https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553). I don’t know of your Google First Click Free addon already did this
- add the noarchive meta-tag to the page, so that Google does not show the link to the cached version.
So, it is not too simple, but it looks doable.
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