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Impact of Gated Email Capture on SEO and Google Rankings

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Hopefully this is the right place for this, please redirect me if not! Does using the gated email capture impact SEO at all? Last week I noticed my domain was starting to rank in the 2nd or 3rd spot on the first page of Google, and now the homepage isn't listing at all. I haven't made any website changes recently, but I did switch my email capture type to gated about 2 weeks ago. Just curious if that prevents any crawling or indexing.

  • Avatar of Joël C.
    Joël C.
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    I do believe gating blocks SEO... But I have a small doubt. However I know we've discussed this in the hiiv before

  • Avatar of Alyssa T.
    Alyssa T.
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    Intuitively it feels like it would be a blocker, haha, thank you! I'm not tied to gating so I'm going to switch it back to pop up and see if that helps 🙂