Forum OpenACS Q&A: Response to Search Engine cloaking / IP delivery

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Posted by MaineBob OConnor on

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 We serve Different stuff to users based on