Hi, I have a website which needs a cookie setting before visitors can surf certain pages. I basically have some content which people need to 'agree to view'. How does this work with search engines and S.E.O. Are there ways of getting this content spidered as if you didn't need a cookie? Or a way of telling a spider it can bypass the cookie check? The cookie check is done with a php script. If you can help that would be fantastic. Thanks
Are you treating search engines and humans differently ? anyway if you are setting a cookie, then it should not be a problem as search engines can easily crawl and index pages with cookies. I hope you understand what cloaking is (never do it) so to sum it up, cookies won't create any problem.