[mxracer95]

Originally Posted by TheChaosFactor

Cutts explained that when Google's crawlers visited a BMW page, it saw blocks of text with repeated key search words such as "neuwagen," which means "new car" in German. However, when a user visited the listed page they would be automatically redirected to another page with less text and more pictures, which was more attractive than the page the crawler saw, but would have scored lower in Google's PageRank system.

"This is a violation of our Webmaster quality guidelines, specifically the principle of 'Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users,'" Cutts' blog said.

That supports the interpretation that this mod is OK.

It seems obvious to me that Google's intent is to ensure people don't mislead search engines with content that doesn't exist, such as when you click on a google result you get taken to a malicious website, not the website and content you wanted to see.

Locking content behind a username/password is not changed, malicious or misleading content.

As was mentioned earlier in this thread, newspapers and television stations regularly do this. A news story will be visible in a search result, but when you click the link to the website, you can't see it unless you register and log in.



That said, I have a question about this mod.

My website requires users to log in. This mod allows you to assign search bots to a usergroup, but does it bypass the login requirement? In otherwords, does it show bots private forums without them logging in?