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would you hide links in your forum?

would you hide links in your forum?

  • YES

    Votes: 6 33.3%

  • NO

    Votes: 12 66.7%
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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?
 
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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.
 
shadow.prx said:
the best way is to just put a guest section

my opinion
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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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 ;).
 
Code: 
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.
 
Hyperz said:
Code: 
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.
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this mod doesn't work :) i tried it a lot and we asked the moder but he didn't solve
 
hscorp said:
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
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lol who is going to know the Google police just look around for some spider mods

like clarksta said it will just cause more problems with mass amount of spam posts and will most proberly drive alot of people away due to the fact they cba to go through all that crap when they can just go to another warez forum lol
 
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