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John Halet: I was wondering if a site is still crawlable if there is email capture keeping the viewer/user from being able to view/access the content?
John Halet: http://www.pitstopmedia.com/sem/images/2011/07/email-capture-bigw2.png
something like that, but capture is just asking for the email and the viewer cannot access the page until they put in their email. Would bots still be able to crawl the page?
Perry Bernard: Hi John, yes, the page is crawlable when a popup is created, the popup is usually part of the page code, there could however be other factors preventing crawl. I assume you captured that image to show us, but what's the URL of the actual page?
Edwin Jonk: If I understand it correct: The user gets some form of login first before they can access the content. In that case you can use first-click-free: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/40543?hl=en
Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 01:28:20 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/is_a_site_still_crawlable_if_there_is_email_capture +John Halet
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