Google will apparently now permit fully paywalled sites to be listed in Search
Enabling more high quality content for users https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2017/10/enabling-more-high-quality-content.html We found that while FCF is a reasonable sampling model, publishers are in a better position to determine what specific sampling strategy works best for them. Therefore, we are removing FCF as a requirement for Search, and we encourage publishers to experiment with different free sampling schemes, as long as they stay within the updated webmaster guidelines. We call this Flexible Sampling. - - - English Translation: Google will now permit fully paywalled sites to appear in search results even if they do not offer any form of free views at all for users to sample the content. That's my reading of the blog post and the referenced technical document. While Google is *encouraging* such free samples, they will no longer be required for a site to be listed in search. Again, that's my interpretation. And frankly, I think that anyone who would pay *anything* to a site without a decent number of free samples first is an idiot. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 --- Impeach Trump --- _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
