How to display a warning page and not be dinged for it

Idea: User comes from search engine, see disclaimer click link to see page

[thaedge]

Due to possible content being rated R and not PG I wish to have a disclaimer on page. I was thinking of using cookie and when user comes to site from a forum, search engine or where ever they would have to see this disclaimer page. I am scared however that google and other SE will crawl and not get to the content page (I dont think bots can use cookies) thus will be confused or just give up on my content pages. Someone told me to cloak it, but I dismissed that idea right away.

Does anyone know of a way to do this or am I wrong and bots can save cookies and this is all simpler then Im making it out to be?

[Sinner_G]

Bots can't save cookies, that I'm sure of. Since cookies are normally made in Javasript, which most bots don't read, they will probably ignore them and crawl the rest of the page as usual. Not certain of this, though, can anyone confirm?

Sinner

[carfac]

If you are requiring the cookie to be set to view your pages.... or you get the disclaimer page, all the bots will get is the disclaimer...

dave

[DaveAtIFG]

Couldn't the disclaimer page set a cookie, then read it back, and let anyone in that didn't have the cookie? I'm new to this cookie biz, perhaps it shows a little around the edges... :)

[davemarks]

What if the warning page was a large popup, or new window so the content would be skewed, if a cookie wasn't present then the popup disclaimer would appear... dimissing the popup or clicking cancel would also navigate away from the page in the parent window.

That way when the search engines came by, they wouldn't be able to do any of the popup window stuff so would simply crawl away...

[thaedge]

I have 2 popups :( (bad bad) and use a cookie logic hell to make sure people only see them one time. Not crazy about another popup, but (didnt even think of using a popup) may be best way to make user see the warning and not feed bogus food to the bots.

Anyone know of any other way?

Popups going once, twice.....

Thanks - edge

[Sanenet]

If you're using some sort of scripting language, you could check the referrer of the page, and if it is different from your site have either a popup or a neat little DHTML modeless window appear...?

Or, just have a good link at the bottom of each page to a really good disclaimer - depends in which country you're based!