Disabling Guests from viewing forums Against SEO

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  1. Madi

    Madi Regular Member

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    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 !
     
  2. Abomination

    Abomination Zealot

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    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?
     
  3. kev

    kev Regular Member

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    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.
     
  4. AbaDe

    AbaDe Newcomer

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    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
     
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