Posted 1 year ago #
Hi everybody,
Does anybody know if 'private' pages can be indexed? Are they viewable by bots or not at all? Is there a way to make them so?
If not, does anybody know of a better way of restricting access to a WP powered website while still maintaining its ability to be crawled by search engines?
Thanks!
S
If the page can be seen by anybody with a web browser, then yes, a search engine can see it too.
Hi Sam07,
welcome to the wordpress support forums. The feature you are asking about is not possible because any user can look like a searchegine robot and vice-versa.
There might be faulty assumptions that lead to the thought that so called cloaking is possible. If you think it is, I would suggest you start to search for a wordpress cloaking plugin.
Posted 1 year ago #
Thanks guys!
Just want to point out that
#1: cloaking is bad practice, search engines (e.g. Google) will penalize site that cloaks
#2: search engine will make a cache version of the page, accessible to any one with Internet connection. You can aovid this with a no-cache meta tag.
The bottom line is, as stated above, cloaking IS bad practice.
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