By justbradford on

Will the Book Access module prevent the contents of my book from being able to be accessed by search engines, etc.? I see with the regular Book module that although I can dis-allow certain roles to access the content via navigation; the content is still there if you type in the node address. I would assume in that case that the contents of my book (I am thinking of an operations manual in this case) could show up on Google, etc...which I oviously don't want. Will Book Access address this, even if I am using Ping to ping updated news content, etc., from the site? We're not doing rocket science here; but I don't want the OM to be available to *anyone* other than authenticated employees.

Thanks!

Bradford

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justbradford commented

Ah, I see WorldFallz has already answered part of this on another thread...to wit: that web crawlers see whatever an anonymous user sees. I would assume that Book Access would take care of the above, then.

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justbradford commented

Well, two more issues on this:

  1. When using Attach Image with the book pages, any illustration pics in the book need to be published to be visible in the book...which makes them accessible to anonymous users who type in the correct url...and thus visible to crawlers, I assume. I may need to go with a different solution that Attach Image anyway, to allow for more than one image per book page...but any suggestions for making these images for the book inaccessible to anyone other than roles authorized to access the book?
  2. Also (and maybe I need to separate this question, but it's related as far as I'm concerned), clarifying is there any way that Ping or RSS might make these book pages available to search engines? Sounds like Ping just notifies the crawlers that, "hey, we have new content, come index whatever might be available to an anonymous user," and doesn't actually transmit any site content? Is that correct, and what about RSS? Would it potentially transmit new book content that shouldn't be public?

Thanks again!

Bradford