Guest Search Enabled?

Hi,

What are you opinion about guest search?
Should it be enabled or no?

If disabled, guest will need to register to have access to search functions.

What are you thoughts?

Guest search should be enabled with image verification
IMO

i use google search for guests.

saves load
encourages sign-up
makes a little $$$

Hi Brian ...

I notice that in your honda forum
That's a good option!

Originally Posted by briansol

i use google search for guests.

saves load
encourages sign-up
makes a little $$$

Ive never had any luck on google searches, how much do you make a day off those?

not much.. a couple bucks.
it's more about saving load than anything else, and i also put up a notice that 'members get better a search' to encourage sign-ups.

as for your luck...
well, thats a direct relation to vbseo you're new to it, so you're probably not indexed very well.

the results when searched on my site are very good.... possibly even better than the built in search engine (at least as far as basic keyword matching goes)

I have it enabled though with image verification

Originally Posted by briansol

not much.. a couple bucks.
it's more about saving load than anything else, and i also put up a notice that 'members get better a search' to encourage sign-ups.

as for your luck...
well, thats a direct relation to vbseo you're new to it, so you're probably not indexed very well.

the results when searched on my site are very good.... possibly even better than the built in search engine (at least as far as basic keyword matching goes)

Yes... My site is now dead because of vBSEO
Over 1k URLS and counting have died on that day!
Its going to take a while to get my on its feet

I use Google Search as main search on one of my sites as it brings more accurate results than vBulletin search engine. As Brian said , it brings some money ( very small ) and save my server load.

Google search for guests and Newbies ( 10 posts and less ).

My site is indexed by google very quickly, usually a few hours.
Maybe I'll try google search and encourage guests to register.

@Notorious: How do you manage to send Newbies to Google?
I'll test a modification of this mod and I'll create new search page to test.

Originally Posted by nfn

@Notorious: How do you manage to send Newbies to Google?
I'll test a modification of this mod and I'll create new search page to test.

* The default Registered Members Usergroup ( ID: 2 ) dont have searching permission ( we call it newbie group )

* Another custom usergroup ( 'Members' ) can use vbulletin's search.

* Members with 10+ posts are promoted to Member group.