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This is absolutely perfect. Thank you James. I think i'll plan out this strategy better before I go ahead. I won't show the sign up after 1min 30secs, but let the user see the full text of a page from serp as the article. I think I will continue to restrict map marker clicks, after 3 clicks the markers will be unclickable and transparent - this is one of the most valuable parts of my website and I'm not sure how important that is for googlebot and search rankings. I'll also only ask for sign up on only certain pages. Perfect. I really wanted a way to for people to see the content and helpfulness of the website, so this is perfect.

Hey james, thanks mate. I'm thinking of other ways to let organic traffic flow... Since the website is kind of SaaS, but more like content as a service haha. The plan is: User is on the website for 1min 30secs or clicks 3 map markers or visits 3+ pages Popup will appear asking for a signup + payment If no signup: Cookie will be set for 6 months, if a users returns and cookie is detected (php) they will be redirected to sign up page Otherwise signup occured (I know, web developers could inspect element and hide this stuff). Do you think google bot be presented with this sign up stuff? And does google bot not set cookies? Will google bot be able to continue to index the site... BTW, I hid content with css, jquery for 1 week, didn't have much of an affect at all, slight decrease in search visibility, but I was scared to leave it for too long, i managed 340 sign ups though.

In my opinion it is bad to allow infringing content to appear on other websites.   These are duplicate content.  It is possible that they will outrank you in the SERPs or result in your page being filtered from the search results.   Also, if you work hard to produce this content then you want people coming to your site to see it - not to the websites of others.  If it appears on websites all over the web then why should people visit your website?   Finally, if these folks use the content and give you an attribution link, that communicates to everyone who sees it that your content is available for reuse. Google says that they are good at recognizing the original source of content, however, I know from experience that they are far from perfect.  Some SEOs believe Google, and advise clients to distribute their content as a way of earning links.  I would not listen to them. We tell infringers to take our content down and when they don't comply we either submit DMCA to Google, their revenue source and their hosting - or we have an attorney send them notice.    We are sending out three notices today.

Will do, thank you Martin.

Hey!  Dave from the Help Team here, Unfortunately there isn't a way to filter results based off of country at this time, but I will certainly add this to our user insights! Here is a bit more on how Fresh Web Explorer works! We manage a list of RSS feeds that we have discovered from various sources and multiple times a day, we check all of those feeds to see if new posts have been added or updated. If they have, we crawl and index those posts. Once a week, we search Alltop to discover any new feeds that are not currently in our list, and add them. We also add any feeds from news sites we find as part of our Mozscape crawl. Hope this helps! You can also read more of our FWE FAQS here Hopefully that helps,

There's a lot of: Error Code 804: HTTPS (SSL) Error Encountered And a fair bit of duplicate content since a lot of pages have been setup but not yet populated with content.

Thank you very much for your response. After more research today and looking around the Q&A's on MOZ I thought that must be the best strategy. You response has confirmed that! Thank you again. I'm just really surprised that documentmanagementsoftware was ranking no.6 in February 2017... was there google updates that caused that to drop?