The website I'm developing it almost entirely restricted to logged in users, using Umbraco Membership. However, I'd really like Googlebot to still be able to index the pages (there is no security issue with someone pretending to be Google). The standard method for doing this would be check the request headers, but as this isn't standard FormsAuthentication I'm unsure about how to override it. Any ideas?
Allow Googlebot for restricted access pages
Hay y'all,
The website I'm developing it almost entirely restricted to logged in users, using Umbraco Membership. However, I'd really like Googlebot to still be able to index the pages (there is no security issue with someone pretending to be Google). The standard method for doing this would be check the request headers, but as this isn't standard FormsAuthentication I'm unsure about how to override it. Any ideas?
Cheers,
David
Looks like Google takes issue with this sort of thing and I don't want to piss them off, so I guess no search engine rankings for me :(
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