I'm also interested in this because we have three different
user states:
- Visitor -- No Cookie, Not logged on
- Guest -- Has Cookie, logged on as Guest
- Member -- Has Cookie, logged on paying Member
At this point, all robots are Visitors and we show visitors
intro stuff. But much of our content is available only to
members and a smaller subset to Guests.
For example, if a member tries to send a visitor a link to
member only content in the bboards, the visitor is redirected to a logon page or a page saying that they need to become a member.
So, we want the search engines to index our stuff and I've though
of having some robot only pages that can do graceful redirects for
real users who use the SE's.
Other thoughts on how to handle this?
Thank you
-Bob
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