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janmetpet
Restrict access to all anonymous users except for Search engines
  • 2006/8/4 17:31

  • janmetpet

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Hi everybody,

To stimulate people to register, I want to lock down some content like wordbook or some newscategories. But since 90% of all my traffic comes from Google, I want to make sure that I can be found. So I want to close it down for non-registred users, but keep it open for spiders without them caching my content. Anyone suggestions? Thank in advance

Jan
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Swain
Re: Restrict access to all anonymous users except for Search engines
  • 2006/8/4 21:02

  • Swain

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  • Since: 2006/6/27


Users:Groups in the admin area. Modify Anonymous to have access to nothing.

Swain

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janmetpet
Re: Restrict access to all anonymous users except for Search engines
  • 2006/8/4 21:19

  • janmetpet

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But how will the search engines spiders index the content?
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Swain
Re: Restrict access to all anonymous users except for Search engines
  • 2006/8/4 22:55

  • Swain

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 198

  • Since: 2006/6/27


I am not sure it would affect spiders. Some content will not show up on search engines. But I would think they could still spider portions of it. What I do myself to encourage registration is restrict access to forums, downloads, and such. It seems to work. I leave enough access to encourage folks to surf, but keep the special stuff for registered users.

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