@VIP Card Club 156074 wrote:
What is the impact if I make these pages available only to members? Will that have an effect on google etc?
If Google can’t see the content – then they won’t index it – and the content will not be useful for SERP purposes.
@VIP Card Club 156074 wrote:
Is it a reasonable thing to do?
IF you want to have a premium membership that you’re gonig to make money off – then it may make financial sense.
If your site is already well known with exisiting content – and you are getting plenty of new members with your existing content then you can do this.
However, if you’re a growing site that does not yet have a good throughput of visitor from non-google links then I’d think hard about whether I might want to release some of this BEST content into free-for-all pages.
As with all strategies – you makes you choices and see what happens.
Good luck.
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