How to Add URL to Google that require authentication??? I am unable to see authentication details user/password on Add URL page: http://www.google.com/addurl/ Regards Sunil
You can't, directly. Not that I know of. You probably want to look into cloaking techniques to achieve what you want.
Google bots crawl a page like a general user. Therefore, they cannot access to any pages that require authentication. Besides, why do we need to put up private information that is only available to the members on the search engine index
not entirely true....some subscription based sites like the ny times and webmaster world allow their content to be spidered but users cannot see it without a password I used to be able to see the page by changing my browsers footprint to the googblebot spider but it doesn't work anymore.
Thanks Oseymour. I have see a similar site named silverandgem [dot] com when I login it asks me User password but looks like there are lot of pages already cached by him on google. Please suggest how we add such sites to google.
why are you using that url ? if you do that , it will take time to be indexed by google. instead of using that url , i suggest you to buy or make link exchange with high pr web site. google will index your site quickly
Officially google still says that cloaking is a bad thing and against their webmaster guidelines, but in reality it is allowed (WMW and NYTIMES) if you know the right people. For the rest of the 99.99998% websites in the world, cloaking is asking to get banned. The honest way is to have a page that has a snippet or summary of the page you'd like your registered visitors to see, get that indexed, then let your visitors decide if they want to register. The problem with cloaking is that they are using google's free results to build their database of names which are highly targeted for the subject of the page. If you are allowed to show googlebot a page that regular visitors can't see, what's to stop them switching the page, thus delivering content different than it's ranked for. So set up a SEO conference and get Google to sponsor it, wine and dine the spam quality team, or spend a few million a year in adwords and you can cloak just fine