would you hide links in your forum?

[hscorp]

would you hide links in your forum?

hide till thanks or reply

I'm not listed in katz so i don't care about that

so do i hide links?

hscorp Reviewed by hscorp on 26th Mar 2009. would you hide links in your forum? would you hide links in your forum? hide till thanks or reply I'm not listed in katz so i don't care about that so do i hide links? Rating: 5

[Zing]

Hide links for guests? or hide links until Thanked/replied?

First one, nope. Second, yes if i want to keep track who is viewing the material.

[hscorp]

no i meant second one

[shadow.prx]

the best way is to just put a guest section

my opinion

[hscorp]

the best way is to just put a guest section

my opinion

the problem when u make guest section the search engines wont be able to access other sections which mean you'll got small number of pages archived there and that means that you'll stay you whole life waiting visitors from ddl

all my sections are available to everyone so now i got about 1000 daily from google and my forum is just 2 months old

regards i hope you understand me

[Hyperz]

Search engines on my site have nearly the same rights as members. Dunno how vbulletin goes about it but in ipb you can put spiders/bots in a usergroup of choice. So guests still need to register but google etc can crawl and index all public member sections. Dowside is people can use the cache to avoid needing to register. But i think very few people do that.

[hscorp]

the big problem that this is against Google rules as crawler

cause Google say that every page accessible by the crawler must be accessible by guest

[Hyperz]

That is not a big problem, that 'rule' is infact more like a guideline. Meaning that if you break or ignore it will have no bad consequences for your site whatsoever .

[hscorp]

anyways there's no option in vBulletin to give you the ability to give the search engines another permission

[Hyperz]

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=196420

Its actually quite easy to do a hack for it to, if i remember correctly you can change like one line of code to switch spiders to the members group.