webmasterworld.com used this technique for years, results and description would appear in google but clicking the links would take you to a login page,
They were never penalized,

IP.Boards AdminCP
Treat spider/bot as part of which group?
This is useful as you can specify group settings for a 'bot' group which can restrict access to certain areas, etc. just like Ziki's addon. Please note: you can make a bot group and give bots there own permissions.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/12/83.jpg

Force spider/bot to use skin
This is useful as you can create a 'lite' optimized skin for your spiders to use to reduce bandwidth and increase the depth of the bot crawling.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/12/84.jpg

Spider Bot User-Agent
Use this section to list which search engine user-agents you'd like to be treated as a search engine visit along with a 'human' name for the online list in a bot=Human Name format.(one per line)
Example: googlebot=Google.com
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/12/85.jpg

well you didnt learn much in that time lol.
did you no that Avril is an Adult which mite make you think im one to lol.
actually im not going to flam anyone like you are, if im wrong i dont cry like
a little girl. no offense but your just plain wrong.
you started something you couldnt finish.


also, sorry Ziki, your thread has been attacked, its a sweet hack and keep up the good work m8.
this will be my last post unless i need support for your addon.
but at least now everyone can see that IP.Boards/invision comes with
this built in and can see how useful your addon/hack is ;)
cheers.

Notice that is says "restrict access" not gain access.
Neither of these are a violation of any rule.

As you kids like to say, whateverrrrr.

BS! An issue has been brought to light. You can delude yourself all you want, but it is still an issue. Your proof is not. Ask IPBoard support whether that feature is designed to give access to Google when it blocks others. It doesn't. You can use it to gain access to restricted areas if you want, but it was NOT designed to violate any Google or other search engine terms of service. I am familiar with the product. I've been managing message boards of all types since 1992.

If you want to continue this discussion further, then honor the mod author by complying with his request. Start a new thread somewhere else about it.

Jim

Ok that does it.I had to report both of you.If you can't discuss in a mature way about the topic (Is this modification SE friendly?) and just insult yourself,please do it in a private discussion.This is not a place for such conversation.

Sorry to burst the bubble, but those warnings are correct.

Serving different content (layout is not an issue) to spiders and to visitors (and not registered members) is considered cloaking and can get you blacklisted on SE's.

In fact this is kind of violation of Google's rules. But it takes time to Google punish you but trust me they'll.
And don't forget you're playing like "My Game, my rules", I mean Google can simply ban you from their lists and you'll have to do whatever they want. The problem is it takes a lot of time to get back to their lists if you were banned.

I can tell you that because I've seen this before, a friend of mine had an issue with Google about cloaking. His board was on the web about two years with a kind of cloaking, he always tried to convince us that wasn't against rules and something. One day he was notified by Google and he took almost one year to get back to their lists.
The problem is if you are listed due cloaking there's no argue with them at all, you're guilt and that's it and have to do whatever they want.

I'm not telling this because I think this is a BS, waste of time and nothing like this. In fact I think it's got potential. This this is for who really wants what they want and the risks for.

That text file is just a polite request which many, if not most bots ignore. One only need check their log files to see this is true and is common knowledge via google search the thing is close on useless.

Fair enough, if you don't want to risk up setting google then so be it but there are many of us who see being indexed as a waste of time and invasion of our privacy.

Thanks again for this plugin, home is much calmer now.. :up:

ziki i really appreciate this mod and i hope it work

but it doesn't look to work with me

see the wol pic and setting pic

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/

Try placing them into a usergroup.

I'm having the same problem with the 3.7 version.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=33
I'm getting ready to upgrade to 3.8. Has anything changed in 3.8 to make it work?
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