vb.org Archive - View Single Post - Age restriction access - over 18s only, but search engines allowed

Spinball · #8 03-02-2009, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr-Moo

I am somewhat unclear on the reasoning behind having this feature. If I am not mistaken when a search engine crawls your site it also creates a cache in which users can browse. This almost defeats the purpose of age-restriction.

An alternate method is to grab the VBSEO sitemap generator and use that to generate your sitemap and submit to Google/Yahoo/MSN, then continue with the 18 year old user-restriction on every page.

Ok, it's an adult DVD trading website www.adultdvdforums.com. I don't want to restrict access to spiders cos we need the site to get into search engines. I don't care if people see the content of the site from Google or other search engine caches, but I would like all visitors to the site to go through an 'I am over 18' check before they proceed into any pages. Should have made this clear from the top, sorry.

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