What about making a small amount of the info available if you aren't logged
in? Some intro text, or the first paragraph, or the first x characters to
the nearest word, or whatever. Would that work?
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:30 AM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RE: Search Engine/Member Login
:
:
: The former.
:
: Make it searchable enough that we can attract people who are searching for
: the kind of information we are offering to our site.
:
: --------------
: Ian Skinner
: Web Programmer
: BloodSource
: Sacramento, CA
:
:
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:22 AM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RE: Search Engine/Member Login
:
:
: Are you trying to make it searchable to attract paying members or
: something?
:
: If you're just trying to make it easy for the existing members,
: why not use
: Verity or something similar to index and search them?
:
:
: -- Ben Doom
: Programmer & General Lackey
: Moonbow Software, Inc
:
: : -----Original Message-----
: : From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: : Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 11:03 AM
: : To: CF-Community
: : Subject: RE: Search Engine/Member Login
: :
: :
: : The former was definitely a concern. and the latter is now a concern as
: : well, until Critz suggested it, I hadn't thought of the user
: agent angle.
: :
: : I'm wondering if I couldn't offer a search engine page (using
: : cgi-userAgent)
: : to expose the searchable data and markup. But don't give all
: the extra's
: : and prettiness. Then theoretically the cached version would be a
: : lesser copy
: : of the whole.
: :
: : As I mentioned, this is probably a dead-end, but I wanted to make sure
: : before I gave, up. Because there is a good deal of index able
: : material that
: : is going to be locked behind a username/password otherwise.
: :
: : --------------
: : Ian Skinner
: : Web Programmer
: : BloodSource
: : Sacramento, CA
: :
: :
: : -----Original Message-----
: : From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: : Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:54 AM
: : To: CF-Community
: : Subject: RE: Search Engine/Member Login
: :
: :
: : Might I point out that Google, for one, caches the contents of
: : each page it
: : indexes, so these members pages would be available to anyone
: who knows how
: : to use Google.
: :
: : Also, if someone wanted in, it's not that hard to (for example) hack the
: : Mozilla source to report a different agent ID.
: :
: :
: : -- Ben Doom
: : Programmer & General Lackey
: : Moonbow Software, Inc
: :
: : : -----Original Message-----
: : : From: Critz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: : : Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 10:35 AM
: : : To: CF-Community
: : : Subject: Re: Search Engine/Member Login
: : :
: : :
: : : oi Ian!!
: : :
: : : you could check the agent, and based on that let it pass into
: : the pages??
: : :
: : :
: : :
: : :
: : : ------------------------------------
: : : Thursday, July 17, 2003, 10:22:44 AM, you wrote:
: : :
: : : IS> All right is there a way for me to have my cake and eat it
: : : too, or more
: : : IS> accurately, have a login/members section that is indexed by
: : : search engines?
: : : IS> Is this possible? Is it desirable?
: : :
: : : IS> --------------
: : : IS> Ian Skinner
: : : IS> Web Programmer
: : : IS> BloodSource
: : : IS> Sacramento, CA
: : :
: : : IS>
: : :
: :
: :
:
:
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