An issue with indexing on search engines of posts locked by Patreon plugin

  • Resolved flo016

    (@flo016)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hi everyone! I tried to access the support forum, but the system does not allow me to write a topic. So, I am asking for help here.

    I installed the Patreon plugin on my website and started locking posts. So I noticed that search engines no longer index the meta description or the first few sentences of my locked posts. Instead, they index the plugin caption inviting people to subscribe. That is, this caption is visible under the title of my articles indexed in search engines. Therefore, I would like to know how to prevent this from happening and make sure that search engines index correctly the articles blocked by the plugin. That is, they should index the meta description, not the Patreon caption. And this is the main problem. After that, I would like to know if it is possible to prevent the plugin from locking the featured images of the posts, but this is not urgent, the key issue is the indexing because readers do not click on the search page immediately seeing that the article is restricted to subscribers.

    I thank all of you in advance for your excellent work and look forward to your kind reply.

    Kindest regards,

    Flora LM

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  • Plugin Author CodeBard

    (@codebard)

    Weird. Registration and posting should be open in support forum:

    https://www.patreondevelopers.com/c/patreon-wordpress-plugin-support/11

    Maybe you went to community forum instead of the one above.

    …

    Allowing indexing of the post content by search engines would mean that your content is accessible via search engines’ cache. Therefore it would circumvent the lock. Additionally it would mean showing a different version of your site to search engines, which is something search engines dont like and if i remember correctly, penalize.

    Metas etc should be manageable through SEO plugins and they should allow you to enter metas to be shown by search engines. Without you needing to do anything with Patreon WordPress.

    Did you turn image locking feature on? If so, it would lock a featured image if you locked the image itself. You can use an unlocked image as featured image, and instead lock the actual image and put it inside post content.

    Thread Starter flo016

    (@flo016)

    Dear CodeBard, thank you so much for your clear explanation.

    As for indexing, I think you are right. So, things remain as they are.

    Regarding the “Enable Image Lock” function, I have never activated it. I have checked the image detail page in the WordPress admin panel and it is visible to everyone, as a Patreon plugin setting. If the image blocking function is disabled, I wondering why the featured image is not visible to everyone at the top of the post?

    Thanks in advance for your kind responses.

    Best regards,

    Flora

    Plugin Author CodeBard

    (@codebard)

    You may have enabled and then disabled image locking but it may not have saved in settings (you have to save your permalinks). Or if your host processes .htaccess files in a certain way.

    Or, its something not related to this plugin.

    Thread Starter flo016

    (@flo016)

    All right, thanks for the support. Have a great day!

    FLM

    Plugin Author CodeBard

    (@codebard)

    Np. Good luck with your patrons.

    Thread Starter flo016

    (@flo016)

    You’re so kind, thank you very much! I wish you a lot of success ??

    FLM

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