Hide forums for guest but show it to spiders
 

Hi,

I would like to hide certain sub-forums for guest and to keep theme showing for spider for seo.

thank you in advance for your help :)

Best regards,

if you go to admincp then go to forums and moderation then forum manager, (edit the forum) you want to hide, scroll down and look for is forum active ...read that :)

Thank you but i dont want it to be hiden to the spiders

as long as you don't have it disallowed in robotes.txt the spiders will index it, they still see it even if users wont its their permissions that are being denied not spiders, spiders dont log in they will see it anyways not sure how you would a page from a guest unless you use user permissions anyway then they cant see it :>

those are your only two options I think

Try Limited Guest Viewing . The author swears it lets spiders through, and my own experience bears this out. Most importantly, it allows you to 'tease' guests rather than ban them outright.