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    Default Only Registered Users can view a Category?

    Anyone using this function? I'm curious what happens with the search engines, does it kill the spiders ability to crawl and will your site still come up in search engines?

    Samples and details would be great! Is there a way to make consumers pay a fee to register.

    Thank you

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    I'm pretty sure with Google there is a way to provide it the ability to crawl areas of your site that are protected. You'll find this in Google Webmaster Tools. Not sure abou the other engines, if they have this ability or not
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    If you require users to register and login before they can view a category then a search engine will not be able to view any listings inside that category.

    As Frank said, Google webmaster tools has an authenticaion section where you can setup a user/pass for the googlebot so it can login and spider you. I actually have a site that does exactly that.

    Could you charge a fee to register? Sure, but it wouldn't be with IndexU. IndexU doesn't have that ability. You'd need to use a third party script like amember.

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    Could you charge a fee to register?

    A one time inclusion fee before u add a listing is all you need??

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    I think the OP wants a way to charge users to view specific categories.

    For exmple on one of my sites it's openly available to all, except two categories require registration. On that site I wouldn't charge users, but I could see the usefulness of charging for other things.

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    If the information is valuable information then i would see a purpose.

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