Add-on Search Engine Bots as Members

[rotpar]

Hi there,

in vb3 I used for about 3 years this mod: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=108070
It was possible to treat search engine bots as members, so that they had access to closed or hidden forums. You could creat an own usergroup for them and it worked pretty well.

Check out the link I hvae posted. Is it possible that anybody could program such an addon for XF? There is a free updated bot (spider) ip list on the web

http://www.wolfshead-solutions.com/spiders-list

Can anybody program this for XF?

 

[Hoffi]

For seo that is no good idea. If google recognizes, that you deliver to google content, that is not accesiable for guests, it will downrank your site.

 

[rotpar]

Believe me, it will not, I checked it and testet it for some years on 3 boards

 

[tenants]

XF already has a method of detecting search engine spiders, it's easy to grab the core XF is_bot, also see here:
Request - Separate/Exclusive style for bots only (which might be similar to this request)

But cloaking is high risk (not just for Adsense, but SEO too)

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More from Matt Cutts on cloaking:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/a-quick-word-about-cloaking/

Google Quality Guildlines
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66355

 

[Hoffi]

That's what I mean, cloaking. Thanks.

 

[zooki]

Believe me, it will not, I checked it and testet it for some years on 3 boards

And there were no Google Panda or Penguin updates!! - Anyway, when I come across those websites on google, I find them highly annoying.