search engines?

[carpmad]

ive recently changed my phpbb forum so you have to login/register to read all the sections
im just wandering if the search engines can still access my pages?
thanks

[Hope]

Well, I am sorry to say, No they cannot. That is unless they have found a way tha I don't konw about. This is entirely possible.

[carpmad]

thanks hope
i best open them up again  i did wander why none of the chillout lounge threads didnt show up

[SensoVision]

why don't you make rules similar to our forum? I mean that guests could read and answer in specified forums, but wouldn't be able to create threads and have to register to answer in forums which are at high abuse risk? This way you'll make search engines spider your pages and people could taste a bit your forum before registration? of course you can make more visitors if force them to register first, but I believe that no many of them would participate since they will find something what is no interest to them...

[carpmad]

ive changed it back now so all sections can be read but they cant post without registering apart from the chillout lounge,forum requests and the hidden request to see sections where they have to register to see and post that should cut down any spammers but we dont ever get any apart from odd ones adding links in there profile so i just edit the urls to my own 
i mainly closed the sections from view because of a sneek from another forum reporting everything that went on but i think thats sorted now so no real need to have them closed

[Hope]

the other downside of locking the forums all together is people have to register before knowing how good or bad the place is. This means you don't get good members, or you don't get members at all.

[carpmad]

the main reason was to try and find out who the spy was  so he had to sighn in but we still never found out
mabe i should open the chillout lounge aswell because thats the best section for them to get a idea of what the forums like as in anything goes but they should join because of the fishing info not for how laid back everyone is

[Hope]

Well, people should be going for the fishing information, but they also want to know that it is a fun place to hang out. It is good to open all areas that show the personality of the site.

[carpmad]

verry true il have a think about it as its the busiest section of the forum so it should pull in more members

another thing i was thinking about is when i added the seo mod thing it hides the bottom section of the forum so guests cant see the amount of members or anything like that. ive edited the lang files so ive got more keywords in use so do you think it would be beneficial for me to allow the footer to be shown to increase keywords?theres another 10 that would show up.

[Hope]

It could be helpful, but I would say your threads are the most powerful thing. The more keywords in your threads, the better you will rank.

[carpmad]

thanks hope
il tell everyone to add more keywords then and choose there titles better  there all pretty cool like that 

[SensoVision]

thanks hope
il tell everyone to add more keywords then and choose there titles better there all pretty cool like that

so you had people who speaks like robots using keywords?

[carpmad]

lol no but they will say carp instead of fish and il do the same and just generaly add a few more search words
i want to start doing like a monthly online mag so they can do it there aswell to improve it as plenty of them have offerd to write them

[Hope]

the online mag will help a great deal. you can write it with the keywords you want and it is something that stays around, so you get rankings.

[carpmad]

yea it should be a good read too
weve got people from all over contributing
im realy looking forward to it but not looking forward to thinking up new topics