• Veltoss@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How does Pinterest get around this then? They pollute image searches like crazy, and require you to login to see anything. At least they did, I blocked them from searches so maybe it’s different now.

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      1 year ago

      Easy - detect if you’re getting accessed by a search crawler or a human. Serve a full page or just a login request.

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      1 year ago

      They must have changed their paywall behavior, I just went and was able to see every image I clicked on.

      The login popup appears after a few pages but you can just exit out and keep viewing. Google should be able to index the pages without access issues

      Maybe that previous aggressive login screen killed their SEO before, I see much less pinterest images than I used to years ago

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        1 year ago

        it 100% did, google removed over half the twitter links on its index due to dead links/login requirements, which if kept like that would basically kill all Twitter traffic since most traffic comes from search engines