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Old Nov 3, 2007, 08:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Kaleb.G View Post
I would like to insist that if features are disabled when a user is not logged in, they are made aware of why the features aren't working. I was boggled when I couldn't view full scans or add any new scans. Only to later realize I wasn't logged in.
Originally, all of those menu options, including submission and scan viewing, were visible to guests, and returned an error message when followed. This was all fine, until I watched the Googlebot sit there for a solid week, and continually try to access every one of those links (probably about 32,000 of them at the time) to the detriment of actually doing any real indexing. Even metatagging them as noindex/nofollow didn't stop it from trying.

So, I'd like there to be some kind of warning too, but we can't really afford to make it so difficult for our site to be correctly indexed, so this is going to require creative solution.