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BirdOPrey5 · #26 04-18-2014, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by karnevil

Hi BOP5 and all,

Question for you if I may

I regularly check google webmaster tools for crawl errors such as this, on our forum www.legalbeagles.info/forums/ we have a VIP area http://www.legalbeagles.info/forums/...-MEMBERS-FORUM which google obviously does not have crawl access to.

If a member posts(publicly and crawlable) a link to a thread/post contained in the VIP area google crawls that post, tries to follow the link and comes up with the no permissions page.

This is then logged as a soft 404 error in webmaster tools. What is the best way to either return a different code that will not affect the crawl errors or prevent it from returning an error?

Would this mod fix this?

This is exactly the mod to fix this. Under the default setup Google would instead get a 403 (not authorized) code on such pages.

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