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Originally Posted by rickanderson
thin...thanks for the reply
is there a clever way to add a ton of content that will feed the spiders yet not be too 'available' to steal from my competition?
rick
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Not really. The search engine spiders are looking for publicly available content only. This makes perfect sense because the search engines want to deliver sites to searchers that are most relevant to the search.
One thing you can do is provide "intro" content that does disclose a portion of the items you want members only to access. That way, you can intice people to join your site to get the full content as a benifit for membership. The "intro" content can contain the keywords or phrases you want to rink highly for.
One example is blogs where only the first part of a post is displayed on the index page and the rest is on the individual post pages. The index page will still rank well in a search if the first portion of a post is well optimized.