| How to allow Googlebot to index pages behind login. | bryanwklein | 12/15/08 7:04 AM | I would like to provide Google with a guest username and password to login and index the information behind the authentication. We have information that is read only and publicly available with a guest username and password. Is there any way to provi |
| Re: How to allow Googlebot to index pages behind login. | luzie | 12/15/08 7:12 AM | Hi Bryan, it would seem that something like what you want to do is possible under a policy called "First Click Free": http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-click-free-for-web-search.html -luzie- |
| Re: How to allow Googlebot to index pages behind login. | bryanwklein | 12/15/08 7:51 AM | That is close, but there is a key restriction to this service as stated in the following snippet. "To include your restricted content in Google's search index, our crawler needs to be able to access that content on your site. Keep in mind that Googl |