Would spiders successfully crawl a page with two distinct sets of content?

[ClayPotCreative]

Hello all and thank you in advance for the help.

I have a coffee company that sell both retail and wholesale products. These are typically the same product, just at different prices. We are planning on having a pop up for users to help them self identify upon their first visit asking if they are retail or wholesale clients.

So if someone clicks retail, the cookie will show them retail pricing throughout the site and vice versa for those that identify themselves as wholesale. I can talk to our programmer to find out how he actually plans on doing this from a technical standpoint if it would be of assistance.

My question is, how will a spider crawl this site? I am assuming (probably incorrectly) that whatever the "default" selection is (for example, right now now people see retail pricing and then opt into wholesale) will be the information/pricing that they index.

So long story short, how would a spider crawl a page that has two sets of distinct pricing information displayed based on user self identification? Thanks again!

[AarcMediaGroup]

In most platforms we work with, the "retail" pricing and descriptions are all the spiders see, because the wholesale pricing is hidden from the general public and is only presented when a wholesale customer "logs into the site".

To pitch the "wholesale side" you would simply optimize a page or pages for the terms relating to wholesale coffee you want to rank for.  There would be no need for the "wholesale prices or info" to be crawled in that case.  Only the pages pitching your wholesale program would get crawled.

Now many make the mistake of creating two separate sites, and in that case, you run the risk of them competing against each other which is bad for rankings.

[MoosaHemani]

In my personal opinion, crawler crawl through URLs so if the URL is not changing upon price change then in that case crawler will crawl the prices that are available as default. Adding different URLs for wholesalers will get you in to the duplicate content issues (in-case you do not create completely separate content).

As far as I know price change might not help with rankings but content does so let the retail page ranking and focus on helping wholesalers to find their area through user friendly visit experience.

Hope this helps!

[Everett]

You are assuming correctly. The spider will see the content that is shown by default, which in your case should be the retail pricing.