Paywall usage question on First Click Free
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We have some list pages on our site that we would like to use a paywall for to get users to do a free registration. The first 2 times they view a "list" page (from anywhere) they see the content fine. If the user registers or logs in they can see all content.
My question is if a user hits our site and they look at 2 list pages. They leave the site and then via a google search result they find another one of our list pages. When they click on that they get to our site but the paywall pops up. Is this a problem? First Click Free documentation says that they must be able to get there on the first try.
Since we let people look at 2 lists free are we ok? Does googlebot have an issue crawling our site if we do that?
Without the paywall our conversion rate was about 1-2%.
Thanks
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Just checked with our web team and they are using HTML5 Web Storage http://diveintohtml5.info/storage.html
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Are you doing this with a cookie? If so, it shouldn't be a problem. Last I checked, Googlebot still denies cookies.
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