Google Able to See Ads Closed to Anon Viewing
 

In our Classifieds section we have publicly viewable Buy/Sell sections.

Then we have Private, login required, help wanted sections.

Apparently the Private sections are open to Google thru the calendar views and the view by date or view all options. It is showing Google and the general public a text preview. Not the full ad just at preview but still enough info that that it's not acceptable. If the section is set to require a login having it displayed in a Google/Public friendly location is a pretty big loophole.

How do we close it immediately. Can we exclude the help wanted/membership required section previews from Google? Can you do it without hindering our members ability to use the view all ads or calendar views correctly?

We do not wish to close our buy/sell section from Google and the public only the help wanted (membership required) section.

Please advise.

http://www.digitalweddingforum.com/c...at.php?cat=all

For example you should only see equipment for sale not jobs on these pages unless you are logged in.

-Mark

Really you can not close it you can elect not to the the calendar and maybe remove the all ads links but see the issue here is that you will pass a cat equals all variable which means we cant check to see if the cat is private since there is not a numeric cat id.

Why not? You know the item's cat id and you know the user's permissions. Surounding every item with a check should do it.

well actually I was figuring we had to query each products cat variable but one could try adding this in showcat.php works for me where noted in that file.

Thanks, Chuck! Working great.

Yep nothing a cup of coffee cant jog out of your brain.