can google serve taregted ads if it cant crawl the page?

[IanL]

I'm assuming it cant. I have one board where %90 of the content is for registered members only which means google cant crawl. Which i assume also means the google ads on those pages are just going to be generic ads.

Is there any way to allow google to index the content of a page but not have that content show up in a search/in the cahce? I guess thats really a two part question:

1. google has to be able to access the pages that require you to be registered to view them
2. and then telling it to only crawl the page to serve targeted ads.

thanks

[Bobble]

Google can see what a guest can. To get around this problem you could allow READ privileges but not POST or REPLY to guests. If Google cannot read then you will get generic ads and ads for password services!

[IanL]

yeah i dont want to give everyone read access to the protected content.

i was just hoping there might have been someway to give google access AND to tell google not to show that info in searches/its cache.

[Bobble]

No, you can't do that. We have to do what Google tells us not the other way around...