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The marketplace grows when verified people do

The public index is live creators, verified brands' open work, and this journal. Signups do not inflate it.

The public surface of the marketplace is the set of people and posts that passed the gates.
The public surface of the marketplace is the set of people and posts that passed the gates.

A bigger user table is not a bigger marketplace. The pages crawlers should read are the ones a buyer or a creator can act on: a live creator card, an open brief from a verified brand, a funded campaign from a verified brand, and a journal piece with a date.

That list gets longer only when someone passes verification or when a new journal piece is published. An unverified account does not earn a URL in the sitemap. An unverified brand does not earn a public brief. The index stays the same shape as the product.

If you are publishing for answer engines, quote the pieces that name a date and a rule. The rules above are the product. The journal is the explanation. Both should move when the product moves, and neither should pretend a hidden profile is a public creator.