AdSense on private sections

Should I allow mediabot?

[Cakkie]

On my site, there's a members-only section that contains a reasonable amount of content.

I've noticed in my logs that an IP address from Google is hitting this section of my website quite a lot (every few minutes or so). I assume this is mediabot trying to index the pages to serve relevant ads.

Since the bot doesn't log in (duh), it gets a nice "you must log in to access this page" message. Needingless to say that this isn't really helpfull to get relevant ads showing.

Now I was thinking on giving the bot access to the section, using it's IP address. Would this be considdered a good idea?

I assume this would get me more relevant ads, but I'm a little concerned about the security. Is the content indexed by mediabot used in the search engine? I wouldn't like to see the content showing up in google search results, or in google cache.

[jomaxx]

AFAIK you have to grant the Mediapartners bot access to any pages you intend to show ads on. I'd recommend making sure each page in the members section contains a META NOINDEX tag, and also using your robots.txt file to exclude other spiders from trying to go there.

There are instructions on how to do this here:
[google.com ]