On my vBulletin forum I have some forums which are private and Spiders dont index them. Is there a way to allow Spiders to view forums as registered users?
If guest can not see the sections, why do you want the listed with google? Sounds like you want the section to show up in search engine results, but you want the person to register to see the results. Change the permission in your sections so the public can see the title of the thread, but not the content. This will allow google to index the thread titles. Also, what you are wanting to do may violate the google terms of service. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769 There is a site called Experts Exchange, they allow google to crawl certain pages, but to see the whole page you have to be a member. There are websites calling for google to ban experts exchange for this conduct. http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/2007...should-be-removed-from-google-search-results/ http://tips.webdesign10.com/googles-double-standard-on-search-engine-cloaking