Amazing! Any plans to have them show as users on the memberlist like GoogleBot and YahooSlurp?

thanks for this excellent hack.. love it

Highly unlikely.

If this is cloaking, having a Guest usergroup is in and of itself, cloaking.

If a registered user happens to come across the Google Cache of one of your pages, and goes to visit it, they see something different as well.

Here's what Google wrote back to me:

I did some more research on their site, and nowhere in Google's definitions does this qualify as a "bad" practice. However, it could be loosely, and I mean, very loosely defined as cloaking, in the sense that 2 sets of content are being presented. However, you are not hiding content from anyone.

There are a lot of websites out on the net that require you to register or even pay to see content. Yet, they're indexed and served in Google. If this was a rampant violation of their terms of service, then they'd clearly state it. Again, it's your choic to use this mod or not. If you are extremely worried, then don't use it. Simple as that!

Onwards:

Well, on my site, when Googlebot shows up, it displays them as their true identity on the Who's Online display. It's probably not a good idea to make them actual members, they're just borrowing the members' group.

hmm..i dont its would be better to install it or not...
some whre in a famous webmaster forum i read "cloaking' spider/bot maight be a reason banned the site from the search engine...

...looks for xpert's comment....

This is a great mod!

Think about the logic you guys are preaching. With the same logic, we could get banned for an indexed thread that has been moved to a private area..... There is no black and white here but nothing in life is. If the bot has indexed the material available in your site then your fine by Google's TOS. Cloaking is making material that does not actually exist on your site.

Install and have fun! ;)

If you're worried about the engines getting annoyed with you, the Search Engine-Friendly Archive is much shadier than this.

Thank you very much, just installed the hack and it works great! ;)

YAY YAY YAY! I have been wanting this for a while - THANK YOU

Hi

I still have bots getting the No Permissions when trying to view a forum that users are allowed to view?