Allow first post free

Hi there,

Is there a way to allow people to view the first post they read without registering, and then require them to register to read more?

We have noticed that fewer and fewer of our news pages are being indexed by Google, which is a concern, and are looking for ways around this.

Thanks

You mean letting Google index your pages but not let visitors read beyond the first one? That’d be a problem because Google doesn’t like you to do that, and you’d have people being able to see your content from the Google’s cache.

I think you’d do better giving part of each page to visitors/Google, but have them register/login to read the rest. You could do this with conditionals. [hilite path]Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals[/hilite]

Hi Christian,

I’ve looked at Dashboard -› s2Member® -› API / Scripting -› Simple/Shortcode Conditionals and can’t see an easy way to do this…

Which conditional would allow us to show part of the page?

Could you confirm that the showing of part of the page would enable indexing?

Thanks

Which conditional would allow us to show part of the page?

You would use the s2If conditional. You can decide what to show the User based on their User Role/Capabilities that way.

Could you confirm that the showing of part of the page would enable indexing?

If you allow a portion of your page to be public, then a search engine will be able to index that portion of your Page/Post, yes.

Thank you. I’ll try this and see how it goes.