Adsense on Private Forums/Site?

Will adsense ads show on a password protected forum

[joeventura]

I have a site which I would like to put AS on but I don't want my pages showing up in the SERPS but I do want Adsense to spider the pages so I get something more than PSAs.

Is it possible for AS to show ads on pages that are restricted from Google spider?

May seem like a stupid question sorry.

[cziffra]

No. Google has to be able to crawl your pages to display ads.

[mlemos]

Yes, you can add an entry in robots.txt file to allow crawling of those pages by MediaPartners robot but disallow Googlebot .

[joeventura]

Can someone tell me how to do that please!

Thanks

[joeventura]

Here is what I have now:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin/
Disallow: /privatedata/

How would I allow Adsense (Mediapartners) to access privatedata?

Thanks everyone in advance!

[Sanenet]

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /privatedata

User-Agent: Mediapartners-Google*
Disallow:

... in a file called "robots.txt" in your webroot.

More info:
[google.com...]
www.robotstxt.org

If it's a password protected forum then Mediabot still won't be able to get in tho'.

[fdmaster]

modify code of your forum so that visitors with google's IP (including mediabot) are not asked for password. I beleive some boards ( phpbb? ) even have code doing that already build in.