I have some contents at my forum that are restricted to members only, if visitors can't see those contents so neither Google bots.
Is there something I can do to allow that safely ?
Tks
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I have some contents at my forum that are restricted to members only, if visitors can't see those contents so neither Google bots.
Is there something I can do to allow that safely ?
Tks
Unfortunately no ,
There are some hacks out there but what you request is called cloaking and if SE's will discover you are cloaking they will remove your site from index.
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That's a good point Mert, SE's may consider this as cloaking.