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Topic: Accessibility of profiles

Hello together,

does it make sense to hide the regular members (free members) from guests? My thought was that only paid members can be accessed by guests - members can view them all.

Reasons:
1. Animation for members to upgrade
2. Animation for guests to become members

Questions:
1. How is that with search-engines? I think i.e. googlebot is a guest... Will the "hidden" profiles be indexed?
1b. Can I tell googlebot to index them by a robots.txt file? (A profile can be found on the saearch-engine, but with a click on the next one the guest will be asked to login).
2. Where can I change the text "You cannot access this page." to something like "You have to login to view this page".

Please, share your thoughts about this...

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Re: Accessibility of profiles

Wouldn't it be more simple to allow guests to see profiles but have to be registered before being able to contact anyone?
For me, if I visit a site and have to join to see anything, I move on.

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Re: Accessibility of profiles

I f i want to hide one portion of the profile from quest  example only personal, they could see all the other portions of the profile except personal, how should i go about to do it.

Regards

Molliere

Last edited by molliere (2011-12-07 08:15:52)

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Re: Accessibility of profiles

any update?

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Re: Accessibility of profiles

I don't think you can currently hide part of the profile without extensive customisation. As far barring visitors from seeing members, or allowing them to see only paid members, that can be done in the CP.