(Entry was posted by Matt Benso on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 02/16/2014).
How is a site that restricts access to most of their content appear at the top of the serps?
There`s a certain website that I keep seeing more and more often in searches that requires membership to view all the content. It`s Quora. I`m seeing it in Google searches and Bing searches. I`m not a member of that site and I see it in serps frequently both while logged in and out of my Google account. So it`s not showing up because of my personal search history or anything.
My question is, why and how is a site that restricts access to most of their content getting so much prime space at the top of the serps?
To add to the mystery a bit, I decided to check the backlinks to one of their pages that showed up at #8 for a seven word long-tail search I did. Zero backlinks to that page. I know it`s possible to do that on domain authority alone. But on a login restricted page? I don`t understand how they re getting away with that.?
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