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How do you serve content to Google and subscribers of your site

The proper way to discriminate and display content

         

mindaugas13

11:17 pm on Mar 30, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Here's my scenario. I need to put together a part of my website that serves up content from a database with certain fields missing unless you are a subscriber. I actually don't have control over this because I can't legally serve up these extra fields to unregistered users.

The problem is that these fields contain lots of content - lots of information that should be crawled.

I know Google doesn't like pages that are served differently to users and search engines. The users can see the same page that Google crawls, but they have to register and/or login to be able to see ALL these fields populated (otherwise they can only see about 70%)

My question is - how can I set this up without getting penalized in Google, is there a safe way? Is there a safe way to sniff out and display the full field results to both search engines and registered users, but not anonymous users? I do not want to piss off the Google gods.

Brett_Tabke

11:39 am on Mar 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

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bottom line - you can't. What a standard users sees (with cookies off) is what GoogleBot wants to see. Anything else, is cloaking. That in itself is not necc inappropriate or bad, but there is no telling if it would hold up to a Google hand check.

mindaugas13

6:54 pm on Mar 31, 2005 (gmt 0)

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That's not the answer I wanted to hear Brett, but thank you. I guess I can't have my cake and eat it too.