How to do this?

[Dorin45]

Hi,

How do I hide the entire forum unless your logged in? Meaning I want nobody to see it unless your logged in?

Also if I do this will it block spiders as well?

Want peoples curioisity to make them register but want the information to be indexed...

 

[sweety_vbulletin3_import9520]

If you block it to guests, you block it to Google also.

The only way around it is to allow or deny based on Useragent. So you would block IE, Firefox, Opera and so on but allow Googlebot, Slurp, MSN etc.

Or you can block guest viewing of threads/posts, but allow Forum Display pages so you still get "some" content indexed.