Orionsbelter Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 Hello, i have a login for my homepage, and about 300 pages of content after login, however google can only find two pages login and register thats because they can't login anywhere and even if i gave them a site map they'd get redirected to the login page because they are not logged in. is there anywhere i can give them a username and password? so they can login. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166500-is-there-anyway-google-can-login/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
vineld Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 You can not send them a user name and password but you can recognize the Google bot (and others that you choose) and let them log in automatically once they visit the site. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166500-is-there-anyway-google-can-login/#findComment-878028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 You can not send them a user name and password but you can recognize the Google bot (and others that you choose) and let them log in automatically once they visit the site. AKA cloaking, a technique the big search engines would ban you for. It's explicitly prohibited in Google's webmaster guidelines. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166500-is-there-anyway-google-can-login/#findComment-878043 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpacmittal Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 There's an option in Google Webmaster where you can type username and password to let it access the protected content. But I think that works only for htpasswd. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166500-is-there-anyway-google-can-login/#findComment-878045 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vineld Posted July 19, 2009 Share Posted July 19, 2009 You can not send them a user name and password but you can recognize the Google bot (and others that you choose) and let them log in automatically once they visit the site. AKA cloaking, a technique the big search engines would ban you for. It's explicitly prohibited in Google's webmaster guidelines. Yup. Same goes for any other methods that are used to display different content for bots and real visitors. It really makes no sense in indexing log in protected pages since they are usually not meant for everyone. Ask yourself why you did not let people access these pages without logging in in the first place? An alternative would be to present parts of the content for anyone / search engine purposes. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/166500-is-there-anyway-google-can-login/#findComment-878271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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