Features
- Set a number of free articles to provide
- Control the interval of the number of free articles
- Edit titles and subtitles of the paywall flow
- Decide on who to target with the paywall
- Dynamic pricing and currency based on the user location
Segmentation capabilities
- Geolocation
- Engagement history
- Customer properties
- Newsletter properties
- Adblock status
- Content properties
- Referral source
- Device type
- Open graph tags
- Meta tags
Targetting
You can target the paywall to specific articles by using The Open Graph Protocol (OGP) to tag the articles you want to target. Most content management systems have plugins or default features that allow you to control the "article:tag" embedded into the page.
For example, if you want to target articles tagged as "premium".
1- Ensure those articles have the following "article:tag" meta tag in the head of the HTML page
<html>
<head lang="en">
<meta property="article:tag" content="premium">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Demo</h1>
</body>
</html>
2- Add the premium keyword to the product configuration in the targeting section in the field called "Meta tags"
SEO
Pelcro (by default) detects all search crawlers and disables the paywall for them. This is done to ensure that the crawler can read the content and index it fully within the search engine. This behavior can be customized.
Below is the regex used to detect crawlers from the user agent.
"(googlebot/|Googlebot-Mobile|Googlebot-Image|Googlebot|Google favicon|Mediapartners-Google|Googlebot-News|Googlebot-Image|Googlebot-Video|AdsBot-Google|bingbot|slurp|java|wget|curl|Commons-HttpClient|Python-urllib|libwww|httpunit|nutch|phpcrawl|msnbot|jyxobot|FAST-WebCrawler|FAST Enterprise Crawler|biglotron|teoma|convera|seekbot|gigablast|exabot|ngbot|ia_archiver|GingerCrawler|webmon |httrack|webcrawler|grub.org|UsineNouvelleCrawler|antibot|netresearchserver|speedy|fluffy|bibnum.bnf|findlink|msrbot|panscient|yacybot|AISearchBot|IOI|ips-agent|tagoobot|MJ12bot|dotbot|woriobot|yanga|buzzbot|mlbot|yandexbot|purebot|Linguee Bot|Voyager|CyberPatrol|voilabot|baiduspider|citeseerxbot|spbot|twengabot|postrank|turnitinbot|scribdbot|page2rss|sitebot|linkdex|Adidxbot|blekkobot|ezooms|dotbot|Mail.RU_Bot|discobot|heritrix|findthatfile|europarchive.org|NerdByNature.Bot|sistrix crawler|ahrefsbot|Aboundex|domaincrawler|wbsearchbot|summify|ccbot|edisterbot|seznambot|ec2linkfinder|gslfbot|aihitbot|intelium_bot|facebookexternalhit|yeti|RetrevoPageAnalyzer|lb-spider|sogou|lssbot|careerbot|wotbox|wocbot|ichiro|DuckDuckBot|lssrocketcrawler|drupact|webcompanycrawler|acoonbot|openindexspider|gnam gnam spider|web-archive-net.com.bot|backlinkcrawler|coccoc|integromedb|content crawler spider|toplistbot|seokicks-robot|it2media-domain-crawler|ip-web-crawler.com|siteexplorer.info|elisabot|proximic|changedetection|blexbot|arabot|WeSEE:Search|niki-bot|CrystalSemanticsBot|rogerbot|360Spider|psbot|InterfaxScanBot|Lipperhey SEO Service|CC Metadata Scaper|g00g1e.net|GrapeshotCrawler|urlappendbot|brainobot|fr-crawler|binlar|SimpleCrawler|Livelapbot|Twitterbot|cXensebot|smtbot|bnf.fr_bot|A6-Indexer|ADmantX|Facebot|Twitterbot|OrangeBot|memorybot|AdvBot|MegaIndex|SemanticScholarBot|ltx71|nerdybot|xovibot|BUbiNG|Qwantify|archive.org_bot|Applebot|TweetmemeBot|crawler4j|findxbot|SemrushBot|yoozBot|lipperhey|y!j-asr|Domain Re-Animator Bot|AddThis)"
Enforcement
Pelcro's SDKs leverage a combination of cookies, IP, device-finger print to enforce a stringent paywall. It can be customized based on your needs.
Updated 5 months ago