How do i allow adsense bot to visit my members only pages?

[sirkei]

Hi,

I was thinking of showing ads in members only pages. But how do i allow adsense bots to visit the members pages?

As far as i know, the googlebot is not visiting the members only pages. And i tried to put one ad in the members pages to test. But only shows PSA all the time. Adlinks is fine sometimes, it still shows one or two ads for a 5 link units.

How do i fully allow the bots to come and visit?

Lets say the page is members.php. Do i make use of robots.txt? Or any other methods?

Thanks.

[david_uk]

I was just looking at the TOS. I'm sure that at one point it was not permitted to put adsense code on password protected pages, bt I can't find that in either the current tos or webmaster guidelines.

[astro_miner]

You would have to make it so that the mediabot is automatically logged in. If your pages are dynamically generated it is trivial to allow google owned ip ranges full access without requiring logging in. The bot won't fill in any login forms... :)

Make sure that everyone gets the same url as the mediabot, ie. no session id's in the url.

If you use .htaccess for authentication it will be harder.

[sirkei]

<-- I was just looking at the TOS. I'm sure that at one point it was not permitted to put adsense code on password protected pages, bt I can't find that in either the current tos or webmaster guidelines. -->

Yes, the current tos doesnt say that ads cant be placed on members pages. I did a search on ww and found some threads that justify this. I think it is allowed to put ads now. Anyway, i will email support and get confimration first.

The members pages dont have session ids. It is just cookie based (i guess). Using one script which i am not familar with. :)

[sirkei]

Any help?