Logged In Only Content Made Available to Googlebot

[adminjob]

Hi guys,

On this page, http://www.jobiness.sg/changi-airport-group/work-reviews/id-18180200170/?page=2, I require my users to sign up to be able to view the content.

I would like to make this available to search engine crawlers.

Also, are there any general guidelines regarding making this type of optimization? Is this considered acceptable within Google's guidelines?

From my research, there seems to be 3 ways to go about doing this:

1. Creating an account for the bots such that they are considered 'logged in users'
2. Adding checks to my html to see the http user agent
3. Google click first free (havent dont much research into this yet)

[FedeEinhorn]

If the content gets indexed, then it's no longer protected for others to see. They could just search for the rest in Google.

There's no point of blocking users and allowing Google to index it. Instead, you could build pages with excepts of the content, so Google AND users can see that, then users can decide to proceed as a logged in user or not.

Google offers site authentication but only for AdSense purposes. You can give them the post details they will need to access that content, but that won't change the indexing for search.

Hope that helps!