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Robots Can See Threads - Even As Guest Settings are to not?

This is a discussion on Robots Can See Threads - Even As Guest Settings are to not? within the Pre-Sales Questions forums, part of the Announcements & Pre-Sales category; I have the forum set so that guest can see list of thread, buts when they click on it they ...

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    Robots Can See Threads - Even As Guest Settings are to not?

    I have the forum set so that guest can see list of thread, buts when they click on it they cant read the thread unless the register.

    Will I have to make it so that guest can view thread information in order for the robots to index the threads and posts.

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    Will I have to make it so that guest can view thread information in order for the robots to index the threads and posts.
    This is known as "cloaking" I am afraid your site shall be banned by search engines once caught.
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    Gotcha. I have seen several sites running vbseo and not allowing guest to view threads... not very smart than eh? but I noticed their threads are still being indexed...

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    until engines notice you are cloaking you can enjoy, but once caught expect severe penalties for that domain.
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    Just show content to guests, once I didn't do it either but believe me it's a lot better to show content to guests. It has zero effect on registrations on my site, people will only be annoyed with it if they can't access without registration.

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