Can Search Bots login via my guest account?

Marketing
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Hi all,

My website uses a registration / login system like your typical social networking site. Im now looking to open alot of the site up to the search engines to help get stuff indexed and also to attract people to lazy to register.

I have created a Guest account which users can login with via a hyperlink e.g.

<a href=“user_login.php?guest=true”>GUEST</a>

The login script ‘user_login.php’ see’s the user is logging in as a guest, sets the session variables appropriately and directs them to the desired page.

My question is, can / will the Search Bots login via this hyper link and access the ‘hidden’ pages?

I hope this is the right section to post, I tossed up between here and PHP :wink: P.S Im not a programming noob, im just new to SEO.

Regards

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Google will follow hyperlinks, and if the hyperlink allows them to log in as a guest without any other input then yes, it will log in as a guest and be able to access those areas of your site.

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Thats great, I thought as much but just wanted to run it past an expert.

Thankyou very much for you assistance :eye: