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Originally Posted by VRPdommy
blah blah blah blah blah I think I know what I'm talking about but I don't
Before google changed their algorithms some 8 years ago, search would bring up many facebook posts on page 1 and facebook is the same kind of closed entity (requiring a account to read/see the post), google had stopped this some time ago.
Notice all the 'Account Only' newspapers do not get top search results, if any, unless they release a publicly available portion (as a content teaser inciter to get a account 'but with original content'), so why is pinterest exempt from this in google search ? (Answer that smartass, it has nothing to do with seo, but I'm sure it's helping a bad situation get worse, but it's on google).
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Pinterest doesn't require an account to view posts. They're not some "closed entity". Like any smart company, they will show a CTA asking you to create an account, but that doesn't mean
you have to in order to view content. They can be pretty aggressive about this also (again, like any smart company). They're not exempt from anything and it has everything to do with SEO / inbound marketing - you're just too dumb to realize that your ridiculous theory and SEO / inbound marketing aren't mutually exclusive here. Furthermore, it's not difficult to create landing pages specifically for SE traffic that's exempt from this rule.
https://support.google.com/webmaster.../7451184?hl=en
Act in a way that cultivates user trust
Users feel comfortable visiting your site if they feel that it's trustworthy.
A site with a good reputation is trustworthy. Cultivate a reputation for expertise and trustworthiness in a specific area.
Provide information about who publishes your site, provides the content, and its goals. Shopping and other financial transaction websites should have clear and satisfying customer service information to help users resolve issues. News sites should provide clear information about who is responsible for the content.
Using appropriate technologies is also important. If a shopping checkout page doesn’t have a secure connection, users cannot trust the site.
Make expertise and authoritativeness clear
Expertise and authoritativeness of a site increases its quality. Be sure that content on your site is created or edited by people with expertise in the topic. For example, providing expert or experienced sources can help users understand articles’ expertise. Representing well-established consensus in pages on scientific topics is a good practice if such consensus exists.
If you search for "quilt ideas", you should see Pinterest at the #1 spot. Why? Well, according to Google's guidelines, it's pretty easy to understand why. They've got the most authority and trustworthiness compared to nannyscutequilts.com(of course, I made this domain name up).
Even being a content aggregator can establish trust, because perhaps Pinterest really only shows
the best quilt ideas from a huge database of quilt ideas. Perhaps a metric like most pinned quilt ideas shows on page 1 of their landing page. Voila, they now offer a better result than nannyscutequilts.com to users.