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Yes our DA is good and we got lot of gouv, edu and medias backlinks.

Paid user did not go through recaptcha, indeed treat Google as a paid user could be a good solution.

So you did not recommend using a paywall ?

Today recaptcha is only used for decision pages
But we need thoses pages to be indexed for our business because all or our paid user find  us while searching a justice decision on Google.

So we have 2 solutions :

• Change nothing and treat Google as a paid user
• Use hard paywall and inform Google that we use json shema markup but we risk to seen lot of page deindexed

In addition we could go from 2 pages visited then captcha to something less intrusive like 6 pages then captcha
Also in the captcha page there is also a form to start a free trial, so visitor can check captcha and keep navigate or create a free account and get an unlimited access for 7 days.

To conclude, if I well understand your opinion, we don't have to stress about being penalized for cloaking because Gbot is smart and understand why we use captcha and our DA help us being trustable by gbot. So I think the best solution is the 1,  Change nothing and treat Google as a paid user.

Thank a lot for your time and your help !
It's a complicated subject and it's hard to find people able to answer my question, but you did it

Hi effectdigital, thanks a lot for that answer. I agreed with you captcha is not the best UX idea but our content is sensitive, we are a legal tech indexing french justice decision. We get unique partnership with Court of Justice because we got a unique technology to anonymize data in justice decision  so we don't want our competitor to scrap our date (and trust me they try, every day..). This is why we use recaptcha protection. For Gbot we use Google reverse DNS and user agent so even a great scrapper can't bypass our security.

Then we have a paid option, people can create an account and paid a monthly subscription to access content in unlimited. This is why I think about paywall. We could replace captcha page by a paywall page (with a freetrial of course) but I'm not sur Google will index millions of page hiding behing a metered paywall

As you said, I think there is no good answer..
And again, thank a lot to having take time to answer my question

Hello, to protect our website against scrapping, visitor are redirect to a recaptcha page after 2 pages visited.

But for a SEO purpose Google bot is not included in that restriction so it could be seen as cloaking.

What is the best practice in SEO to avoid a penalty for cloaking in that case ?
I think about adding a paywall Json shema NewsArticle but the content is acceccible for free so it's not a paywall but more a captcha protection wall.

What do you recommend ?
Thanks,

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