I have a membership site and am curious, are you able to get search engines to index pages which are behind a login? (I am setup in Drupal 6)
Thanks for your help.
Thanks for your help.
Index Drupal Password Protected Pages?
- Thread starter Kelsey A. Helm
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Why would you want to? The point of having a protected area is to keep people out.
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Use the robots.txt to allow or disallow them
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I'm assuming, from the way I understand your question, that you WANT the SE's to list your protected pages but, when someone actually clicks the link, they get hit with the membership sign-up. Am I right?
You could do it by cloaking your pages, so the SE's can see the content but the visitors can't. The only drawback is, the cached version would still show the content the SE's saw. Not many typical innerwebs surfers are savvy enough to look at the cached version, though.
I imagine there might be another, more complicated way to do it but, if it were me and the crowd I was trying to attract wasn't the innerwebs savvy type, I'd just cloak my shit.
You could do it by cloaking your pages, so the SE's can see the content but the visitors can't. The only drawback is, the cached version would still show the content the SE's saw. Not many typical innerwebs surfers are savvy enough to look at the cached version, though.
I imagine there might be another, more complicated way to do it but, if it were me and the crowd I was trying to attract wasn't the innerwebs savvy type, I'd just cloak my shit.
Thanks for your response Mike - checking links now.
Springer, you are exactly right and what I am looking for is to utilize my many inner member info pages to increase my SEO rankings - while not giving away the content. . . .I think if I cloaked the page the engines would link directly to the cloaked page . . rendering the cloak useless?
Springer, you are exactly right and what I am looking for is to utilize my many inner member info pages to increase my SEO rankings - while not giving away the content. . . .I think if I cloaked the page the engines would link directly to the cloaked page . . rendering the cloak useless?
hmm.. maybe you should know what cloaking is before responding: Cloaking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fair enough - I assumed cloaking only referred to URLs - I'll have to investigate it further. Thanks guys.
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