Does it block search engine robots from going through your site and ranking it?
If so, how do you work around that so your site gets adequate exposure? .
Posted - Dec 18 2002 : 09:26:43
Whoa! First you want to protect your content... and then you want it searchable from the web which exposes your precious content. Let's get a few things right first...
1. Search engine success is based on text and the re-occurrence of keywords in your pages. 2. Search engines start at your index/home page and then find the other pages that are linked from there. 3. Grab and site downloading programs (inc Adobe Acrobat) work on the same principle. 4. If no direct hyperlinks to pages are on any of the linked pages, those pages will not be spidered.
The images used by Copysafe and Secure Image if spidered, are totally difficult for me to anyone who downloads them because they are
encrypted and the unlock code is based on your web site... they won't work anywhere else.
To have a searchable site all you need to do is maintain that the pages that you want listed are linked from your home page (or chained) using normal html hyperlinks.
JavaScript won't d, as it can be used as a simple blocking measure to protect certain pages. But
JavaScript is not secure from some site grabbers.
To create a proper protected area and not have certain pages linked to the outside world, you can use something like our Link Protect.
Does it block search engines?
Posted - Dec 18 2002 : 09:17:06
