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June 26, 2015 at 10:18 am #157597NancyFieldsMember
My client wants her free offer content visible to search engines, but she does not want her free offer content accessible without first requiring prospects to join her list.
My first thought was to add her content to a hidden page on her website. This means she would have (1) a hidden page containing all the content within her free report plus (2) another hidden page with a downloadable link to her PDF: the hidden page with the downloadable PDF would be linked to her 3rd party autoresponder.
On second thought, once indexed by the Google, etc., it seems the link to the hidden page would be accessible to anyone. Thus visitors could access her free offer content without providing their email address and name in exchange for the free content.
Aside from adding a meta tag description of her free offer content, is there a way to do both as described above, and still require prospects to opt-in to her email list?
Many thanks for your help.
http://fieldsgraphicdesign.com/June 29, 2015 at 4:44 pm #157884David ChuParticipantHi,
My basic answer is, I'm not sure. ๐ But if one of your pages is web-accessible and fully pumped into Google, then there's no keeping it secret, just as you thought.Why not just do what everyone selling something like that does? Just give a sample of the content, just enough to get Google-searchable terms in there, and to get more, they have to opt-in. The opt-in procedure could be as simple as forwarding a Mailchimp-connected contact form to a page with the download. You can "nofollow" the page so that hopefully the search engines will ignore it. Or if you want to get all secure and fancy, there are loads of membership plugins for that.
Maybe your client thinks that every word is precious to Google, and that's why she has this peculiar idea? I can assure you that "the" and "and" and "this" and all the other common connector words are worthless to Google. ๐ Just the important key search words are important, and that's what you want in your sales pitch leading to the opt-in. But you knew that. ๐
And yes, I also have the occasional client for whom every tiny word they write is a precious gem, even when grammatically messed up, misspelled, and nonsensical. But you didn't hear that from me. ๐
Dave
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June 29, 2015 at 6:51 pm #157888NancyFieldsMemberThank you Dave. I think I can convince my client to write some juicy "ad" type copy to promote her free offer. Sounds like a landing page might be the way to go, here.
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