Generally speaking, how do the big search engines -- primarily Google Search, handle, differently, if at all, the following three types of "blog posts" coming from a writer on substack -- where said writer's blog is housed on a subdomain on substack (not a custom domain name):
Generally speaking, how do the big search engines -- primarily Google Search, handle, differently, if at all, the following three types of "blog posts" coming from a writer on substack -- where said writer's blog is housed on a subdomain on substack (not a custom domain name):
* The "blog post" is not behind a paywall.
* The "blog post" is behind a paywall and with NO "free preview". Note: just headline-1 and headline-2 are visible to the non-paying reader.
* The "blog post" is behind a paywall and WITH a "free preview". Note: headline-1 and headline-2 are visible to the non-paying reader -- as well as a portion of the body text.
In other words, is the Google Search webcrawler-bot built to be able to detect "paywall" walls, and, if detected, de-rank that "blog post" -- regardless of how "good" the SEO Title and SEO Description used are?
Here is the reply I received from the Substack support team:
* Paywall or non-paywall doesn't make a difference here.
* The ranking on Google for all three is based on general SEO factors: the keyword searched being in the page's title, how many sites have linked to the page, etc.
Generally speaking, how do the big search engines -- primarily Google Search, handle, differently, if at all, the following three types of "blog posts" coming from a writer on substack -- where said writer's blog is housed on a subdomain on substack (not a custom domain name):
* The "blog post" is not behind a paywall.
* The "blog post" is behind a paywall and with NO "free preview". Note: just headline-1 and headline-2 are visible to the non-paying reader.
* The "blog post" is behind a paywall and WITH a "free preview". Note: headline-1 and headline-2 are visible to the non-paying reader -- as well as a portion of the body text.
In other words, is the Google Search webcrawler-bot built to be able to detect "paywall" walls, and, if detected, de-rank that "blog post" -- regardless of how "good" the SEO Title and SEO Description used are?
Here is the reply I received from the Substack support team:
* Paywall or non-paywall doesn't make a difference here.
* The ranking on Google for all three is based on general SEO factors: the keyword searched being in the page's title, how many sites have linked to the page, etc.