John Michaloudis

On 9/5/2023 at 4:29 AM, Dll said:

I'd recommend having a read of this - Google is specific in there that you shouldn't be using cloaking for paywalled content, and that you should be using structured data for it instead. 

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/flexible-sampling

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/paywalled-content

Thanks! I got confused by the terms, but this structured data for paywalled content is what I really meant.

But it seems that there is no way to edit the templates to incorporate Google's instructions, as @PPlanet mentioned.

Thank you very much for your responses!
 

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Have you read the article you linked? It explains in details why should NOT do it. 

I did read it. The idea is, like PPlanet mentioned, to set it as a paywall. That would be the case when you would like the content to be indexed.

Thanks for the plugins and suggestions, I will debate this with my team and see what's best for us.

Hello,
We have our forum installed and working. Currently, this is not being indexed by Google, because you have to be logged in in order to see the content.
Is there a way to allow the tool to show the content to search crawlers, but not to clients? This technique is called "content cloaking" and it's allowed by Google, among others.
Please advise for any possibilities to do this. Here is an explanation of this technique: https://rockcontent.com/blog/cloaking-in-seo/

Thank you in advance!

Hello,

After a few failed login attempts by a student of mine, his account gets locked.

How do I unlock them so they can log in again and start using my forum?

Thanks,

John