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by profmonocle 1634 days ago
Isn't it actually against Google's policy to show different content to the crawler than to actual users? I might be misremembering, but I thought at one point this practice could get you delisted.
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sokoloff 1634 days ago
Google updated that policy (that used to require “first click [from Google SERP] to be free”) in 2017: https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2017/10/enabling-m...
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flemhans 1634 days ago
They say Google is conducting internal deals with Pinterest that foster such behaviour.

I suspect Medium.com and Quora to be in the same boat.

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