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Enable Google to index your pages can be good or can be bad. The immediate answer is “good”, but I will try to put an example where the answer is “bad”.<\/p>\n

You look at the web traveler agencies that are investing millions dollars for being the first result on Google enabling the search index.<\/p>\n

After that, you find Google has “Flights” section on their page, and the quality of this information is very accurate: they give you more options, less advertisement, and they route you directly to purchase the tickets on the flight company web.<\/p>\n

Why do you want to pay a travel agency if Google is giving it to me for free?<\/p>\n

By this reason, for instance Facebook, does not enable Google to index their content since years.<\/p>\n

Poor web travel agencies, they are being beaten in the same way the physical travel agencies were beaten some years ago.<\/p>\n

The sequence is as follows:<\/p>\n

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  1. Physical market.<\/li>\n
  2. Web market (if you are here, analyze how much time the market is going to exist).<\/li>\n
  3. Google market, Amazon market, Alibaba market,….<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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