Get content crawled, but not viewable by public.

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    rich7272 · Member ·

    I’ve got a whole e-book of key word rich original material that i want to add to my site to help boost my search engine rankings. The problem is that I don’t want anyone to be able to view these pages but I still want search engines to crawl them.

    If someone should type into the search engine the specific string of text found on one of my pages, I don’t want Google to display that page as a search result. But I do want Google to crawl these pages to find the keyword rich material and boost my search engine ranking position.

    If I just simply set the page to ‘Private’, does Google still crawl the page and will it be listed as a search result if someone searches for that exact string of text…?

    Thanks in advance guys…

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    timethief · Member ·

    You’re kidding, right?
    The reason search engines like Google send out bots to index is ao what they index is available to targeted readers who search for it.

    If you set your blog to private what you are doing is instructing bots not to crawl and index the material in the blog.

    You cannot “boost search index rankings” on a private blog. As no content has been crawled and indexed there’s nothing to base a ranking upon!

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