vBulletin.org SEO

[hilaryl]

Hi,

I just have a question about the vbulletin.org site, and it's SEO.

In particular I am interested in how you deal with pages that require a user to be logged in to see content.

An example URL being this - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...1&d=1429493282

If you are not logged in, it's a page that asks you to log in. However, the HTTP response is a 200 OK. From what I am experiencing in my own Webmaster Tools, I would say that this is being marked as a 'soft 404' in your Webmaster Tools. And given how big the vbulletin.org site is, I would imagine you would have thousands of 'soft 404' errors from pages like this.

Can you confirm any of that?

Obviously this mustn't effect you SEO wise that much because you do very well in Google.

Google has recently started finding threads on our forum that require a log in, still not sure how because we don't link to them, but I'm not sure if I need to take any measures to stop it from impacting us SEO wise.

Cheers,
hilaryl