forum for registered users and google
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Topic: forum for registered users and google
Posted By: moti
Subject: forum for registered users and google
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 7:07pm
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I created a forum for users just registered
they can see enter and post in this forum when register in site
I want to know in this mode can google or any search engine index this forum
and search its contents Thanks
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 26 February 2005 at 7:48pm
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If posts cannot be viewed unless you are registered, search engines will not be able to index the site.
If search engine traffic is important, you're better off to allow un-registered users to view posts but require them to register in order to post themselves. ------------- 
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Posted By: martionline
Date Posted: 27 February 2005 at 3:36am
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that s very big handicap
'cause i have put very very good and useful informations in forum which only registered users can see
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Posted By: sfd19
Date Posted: 27 February 2005 at 9:01am
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This is not a handicap but the way you have set up your forums.
You only want registered users to be able to read the posts therefore it
does not make any sense allowing Google to index them.
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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 27 February 2005 at 11:24am
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Think of search engines as just text-only browsers.
Like any other browser user, they would have to register and login in order to walk through the restricted areas of the site. They don't have the capacity to remember millions and millions of logins.
Even if they could get in, ones like Google also contain links to their cached versions of a page which would defeat the purpose of being logged in.
The whole idea behind securing sections of a forum or site is that it's not supposed to be publically accessible. -------------
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