This is our website http://www.mylonglife.com/ we do have good articles but you must sign-up and log-in to our site before you can see articles.. thus GOOGLE and other SE Crawl pages that require authentication?? Is our website SEO friendly? Thanks
Same goes for SE. If they cannot see the content, they cannot index and give you proper SERP. So, I would say no.
Here is what Google recommends. See the last paragraph. http://www.google.com/support/webma...536&query=crawl+restricted+pages&topic=&type=
By changing your program , try to enable crawling for google bot with out log in. You can do this by checking user agent in browser header. www.experts-exchange.com Code (markup): use this method. But they missed something. that is even normal user can see the google cache without login to the site. You can fix this by using no-cache meta tags.
Thanks for sharing your advice and sharing some thoughts. I guess I should have to change the setting of our site.. so that it will be SEO friendly