What's Kwackin'?

Originally Posted by Oliver With all due respect Sam, are you living in a dream world? Unless your robots file specifies indexing for SE's over users, then pages that are unavailable will not be indexed.

When google and other se bots come onto the site they are automatically recognized as bots and are hooked up to the members group. So Googlebot and other SE's doesn't browse like a guest.

Standard setting you can change in IPB.

Download User Agent Switcher for Firefox to see if I really live in a dreamworld... Seems fine here

Originally Posted by Sam Granger When google and other se bots come onto the site they are automatically recognized as bots and are hooked up to the members group. So Googlebot and other SE's doesn't browse like a guest. Standard setting you can change in IPB. Download User Agent Switcher for Firefox to see if I really live in a dreamworld... Seems fine here

Will you not be penalised for cloaking?

Originally Posted by -Gary Will you not be penalised for cloaking?

Highly doubt it. Thousands of forums with this enabled and doing well for years. The content is there, just for logged in people. Isn't like I'm trying to spamdex in which case it would be risky, yes.