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This is absolutely perfect. Thank you James.

I think i'll plan out this strategy better before I go ahead. I won't show the sign up after 1min 30secs, but let the user see the full text of a page from serp as the article. I think I will continue to restrict map marker clicks, after 3 clicks the markers will be unclickable and transparent - this is one of the most valuable parts of my website and I'm not sure how important that is for googlebot and search rankings. I'll also only ask for sign up on only certain pages. Perfect.

I really wanted a way to for people to see the content and helpfulness of the website, so this is perfect.

Thanks James. So I guess I just try it and see how it goes.

Hey james, thanks mate. I'm thinking of other ways to let organic traffic flow... Since the website is kind of SaaS, but more like content as a service haha.

The plan is:

1. User is on the website for 1min 30secs or clicks 3 map markers or visits 3+ pages
2. Popup will appear asking for a signup + payment
3. If no signup: Cookie will be set for 6 months, if a users returns and cookie is detected (php) they will be redirected to sign up page
4. Otherwise signup occured

(I know, web developers could inspect element and hide this stuff).

Do you think google bot be presented with this sign up stuff? And does google bot not set cookies? Will google bot be able to continue to index the site...

BTW, I hid content with css, jquery for 1 week, didn't have much of an affect at all, slight decrease in search visibility, but I was scared to leave it for too long, i managed 340 sign ups though.

Hi,

I'm trying to monetise my website via a paid subscription / paid content strategy.

The plan is, after the user is on the website for

1. 1min 30secs or clicks 3 map markers or visits 3+ pages
2. A popup will appear asking for a signup + payment
3. Cookie will be set for 6 months, if a users returns and cookie is detected (php) they will be redirected to sign up page

My site relies heavily on organic SEO, so my question is:

Will google bot be presented with this sign up stuff? Does google bot set cookies? will everything be indexed properly... And what affects on SEO?

Thanks for the reply!

I'm well aware of the ebook tactics... it doesn't really apply here. Not sure if you looked at the site. Yes I am list building.. there is no PDF or ebook i can offer users, this website is the value adder, it is the helpful content. It has traction, 30,000+ visitors monthly and rising.

I give away details for a few fishing spots free, but the rest is sign up required. so far 17.38% conversion rate so far.

Thanks James, I'm testing it for a week to see how it goes. It definitely increases users...

What better ways are there to encourage / enforce user signups?  Perhaps a cookie tracker of some sort? After 1000+ hours of work I consider a signup to access the content a fair trade

Hey SEO masters!

I have a website that is smashing it for SEO in Australia. In an effort to increase a user base I want to make it so only logged in users can see all the content.

So today, I launched a new feature hiding content using CSS 'height:' property. The content is obviously still there and if you were a developer you could easily 'inspect element' and remove that CSS style to see everything... There are a few other tweaks i made for logged out users, but that only affects some json.

Question: will this affect my SEO rankings?

Here is a direct example: https://www.fishingspots.com.au/s/perth if you sign up, there is about 1400words of content.

Will do, thank you Martin.

Hi,

I've just noticed a few back links in Google Search Console, I was excited. But when I saw the backlinks, 2 other websites that had completely copied my content and then gave a backlink to my website.

Is this bad for SEO and would google penalise my website for this?

Are you guys saying no don't do it for the sake of trying to not create a spammy internet?

I know there's better ways to build back links, but i'm curious. Before I learnt more about SEO (only a few months ago) I left a few comments on related articles with a link back and it seemed to have improved the websites SEO. Is this possible or was there something else happening here? Am i tripping!?

BTW, the 3 existing websites are all about the same topic.

Thanks for the response.

Its not possible to redesign the other domains, as the company has consolidated and changed names. Plus that wouldn't save time, its a massive job redesigned and recoding 2 websites! They need 1 big website now. They have very low DA also.

Does the link juice still get passed on redirects?

Hey guys, just wondering, my client has 3 websites, 2 of 3 will be closed down and the domains will be permanently redirected to the 1 primary domain - however they have some high quality backlinks pointing the domains that will be redirected.

How does this effective SEO?

Domain One (primary - getting redesign and rebuilt) - not many backlinks
Domain Two (will redirect to Domain One) - has quality backlinks
Domain Three (will redirect to Domain One) - has quality backlinks

When the new website is launched on Domain One I will contact the backlink providers and request they update their URL - i assume that would be the best.

There's a lot of:

Error Code 804: HTTPS (SSL) Error Encountered

And a fair bit of duplicate content since a lot of pages have been setup but not yet populated with content.

Hey guys, just wondering if we can refine results to Australia only with the fresh web explorer?

Thank you very much for your response. After more research today and looking around the Q&A's on MOZ I thought that must be the best strategy. You response has confirmed that! Thank you again.

I'm just really surprised that documentmanagementsoftware was ranking no.6 in February 2017... was there google updates that caused that to drop?

Thanks David.

Nope, traffic hasn't changed, in fact I had a huge spike in organic traffic over the weekend.

I'll keep that in mind, it has lost a few organic backlinks over the past few months, so that could be the reason, but it wasn't an immediate DA drop.

I have pretty much the same issue with one of my clients websites. It was ranking no.5 for a highly prized keyword, after a redesign to mobile friendly, kept URLs, redirects etc, improved content, https and "best practises" etc our rankings continue to drop. wtf.

I had a look at your site and it seems to be optimised how I would approach SEO also... long form SEO text, keywords in h1, h2, alt, meta etc.

I also saw that https://www.fashionaddict.com.au/hair-fascinators.html ranks no.1 without long form seo text. Again wtf?

And http://www.fascinators.net/ ranks no.2 with a similar structure to your site.

The main difference I noticed is you mention "fascinators" a lot in headings, which does seem a bit unnatural, maybe even spammy. I believe I do that also on my clients website... causing it to drop.

What are your backlinks like compared to the competition?

My site: https://www.fishingspots.com.au/ has started to drop Domain Authority in the past weeks, however less quality sites like http://silverstories.com.au/ are rising...

I am not sure why? Is there someway I can understand why my site would suddenly start dropping authority?

I have been using MOZ a lot, in the past I have always been able to optimise a website enough to rank well in my local areas, but lately every time I optimise a website based on MOZ recommendations the rankings are just dropping and dropping... I haven't focused any efforts on backlinks, but a few sites have gone from the first page of SERP to 2nd and continue to drop... I have 2 example sites:

https://www.documentmanagementsoftware.com.au/ - optimised for "Document Management Software" - was initially ranked no.7 in google AU, now it is no.16 after my efforts.

http://www.tmphysio.com.au/ - optimised for "canberra physiotherapy" - was no.6 now it is dropping to no.9 after 'optimisation'

Any help or insights would be extremely helpful as I feel hopeless!