Google bots and forum question.

Nuke Soldier Joined: Mar 02, 2005 Posts: 12

Hello,

If I set my forums to be read only by registered users, will google spider them, or not?

Thank you,
Raul Nunes

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

It will try to crawl the links to your forums and posts, but will only get:
"you are trying to access a restricetd area."
"go back"

Nuke Soldier Joined: Mar 02, 2005 Posts: 12

Is there a way to let google spider all posts but user can only see them if they are registered?

Sergeant Joined: Sep 01, 2003 Posts: 77

No.
All you can do is everyone can read the forums (so robots can spider) but only registered users can post.
Just like this site.
Guido

Site Admin Joined: Jun 18, 2004 Posts: 208

i would allow ready by all for your forum, i would also create a sitemap or backend feed also for every category

and submit to google sitemaps so you can send for bots when you want them

thanks

Steve

Nuke Cadet Joined: Jun 28, 2006 Posts: 6

The better option is to let Google know! use robots.txt

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