Can Google Spider my vBulletin Profile Page?

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Does anyone know if Google can spider my profile page on the various vBulletin forums I sign up for?

I put my links to my site there and I was wondering if it's accessible. Reason is that when I am logged in, open a new tab and past in my profile URL, it comes up just fine. However, when I log out, then paste in my profile URL it is puts up a screen requesting that I log in.

Are profile pages accessible by the search engine spiders? :confused:
#search engine optimization #google #page #profile #spider #vbulletin
  • if you configure it to, yes, I use the VBSEO plugin, you can restrict certain pages from being crawled and indexed.
  • I would imagine it spiders cant crawl the pages then unless they have been configured to let spiders in ( which is likely ) Obviously if the spiders are just set as the Guest usergroup then they wont be able to access it.

    I normally check by pasting a profile URL into google , then if it shows press the "cache" button on the search.

    Also a nice little trick if you want to view a forum post with out registering.
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    Can Google Spider my vBulletin Profile Page?

    Does anyone know if Google can spider my profile page on the various vBulletin forums I sign up for? I put my links to my site there and I was wondering if it's accessible. Reason is that when I am logged in, open a new tab and past in my profile URL, it comes up just fine. However, when I log out, then paste in my profile URL it is puts up a screen requesting that I log in.