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A small trick to read content from forums without registering or logging in...

by Deepak Media
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When you search for something in Google and if the result is from a forum... sometimes some forums ask you to register and login to read the content.

But you may not want to do that because that would be the only time you visit that forum for a specific content.

There is a simple way to work around it.

Forums allow google spiders to crawl their content without logging in.

All the results in Google now has a link called "cached". Click on it and you will see the page. These are the copies of the pages that Google last indexed.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    Sorry,

    But if you have to log in to read the content then the spiders don't read it.

    I'll stand corrected if you can show an example. I'm not always Wright

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    • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
      Originally Posted by George Wright View Post

      Sorry,

      But if you have to log in to read the content then the spiders don't read it.

      I'll stand corrected if you can show an example. I'm not always Wright

      George Wright
      Some forums have this page view limit.

      So if I am not registered, I can only view a limited number of pages and once those pages are up, I will have to register to the forum to read the posts. (I think if you delete the cookies, you can view the pages again)

      Don't remember of an example right now but if I find one I'll edit this post and show you one.
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  • Profile picture of the author clark.angus
    nice tip. i also feel trouble some time to read forums without registration.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mohammad Afaq
      But you won't be able to get the most recent content. I mean, google won't have indexed many of the posts that were made after the bot crawled it.

      But I guess it's better than having to register on the forum just to view one post
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  • Profile picture of the author Jillthetoolgirl
    Thanks for the info!
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