Are links which require a log-in skipped?

[Jon_King]

I have a few links on a new site which require a log-in. Are these in any way troublesome to bots? What happens when spiders/crawlers/bots come across links they can not follow?

[Shakil]

Jon,

is it NOT situations such as these where Cloaking comes into play?

Shak

[hakre]

shakil, excuse, but what is cloaking. in know the meaning of the word but not the meaning in your post.

[starec]

Cloaking is serving different content to different users (differentiation by IP, user agent etc).

Bots can't log-in. Still, those restricted-access pages can be served to Googlebot, while keeping the login for human visitors.

It is often done by news sites and other pay-for-content sites.

[hakre]

ah, ok. then my first idea matched it exactly. so you can add the google-spider useragentstring in your browser and surf the cool way over these site - that's nice.