Does "registered members" forum only accessible by google?

[micks80]

Hi Friends,
I have a doubt. I have opened my forums only to registered users and so i was wondering would it affect the search engines searches in anyways?

Like would the google, yahoo etc search engines will still be able to spider my website and show the website pages in the search indexes or not??

Your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Onimua]

No.

Bots follow the Unregistered usergroup permissions. Whatever they can or can't do is the same for bots.

[SSSlippy]

If you did allow the bots to go through your page and blocked guest access google would remove u completly from their engine.