Hello guys, I just want to know if I obliged guests to not see the forums till they register. Will this affect the SPIDERS Crawling my website and affects the Indexed Page Number? Just wondering !
I've no idea how it affects page rank, but there are some things that I really don't want to be indexed on my forum. So a couple for forums are hidden. You probably have a moderator / staff forum, right?
If the search engines can not index your site, how are they supposed to rank your site? From what I see, the forums that do not allow guest to see post, usually do not rank very well in the search engines. A couple of forums that I know of, I never see them in a search result.
The Best thing to do in my regard is if you are holding :- A adult site like me , hide the links of the Posts if u hold an oline community site :- try to show the first 2 - 3 posts of each thread in that way ur thread gets listed with the search engine Always remember google is ur friend , search engine alone bring the most of ur visitors. If you hide your content from them , u will never get indexed by them,and u will never get a page rank in ur life but i do not really care about page rank
