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Chris Jacobs
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Nov 19, 2012 - 2:48 pm

Hi guys,

I own http://minipcforums.com/. It's a support forum designed in simplepress and I was wondering since it is a forum that requires you to register to be able to read posts, will search engines be able to crawl it? I heard that if you can't read without registering then the search engines won't either.

Thanks, Chris

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Mr Papa
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Nov 19, 2012 - 3:01 pm

a search engine crawler would be visiting the forum as a guest...  if guests cannot read the posts, then the crawler wont be able to read them either...

but it does appear that you are allowing guests to view a forum list... so the crawler will see that main forum page too... and may try to index the links on that page... but it wont get any content...

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