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Does Google index pages that require login ?

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    gspark Reply #1, 19 years, 5 months ago
    Was curious how google handles pages that are secure and require a user to login and also if you have a user area by making it secure do these pages help or not help with search ranking
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      Ryan Thrash Reply #2, 19 years, 5 months ago
      Search engines will not index pages requiring logins.
        Ryan Thrash, MODX Co-Founder
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        TrinitySEM Reply #3, 19 years, 5 months ago
        I just came across this.

        The SEs won’t index pages which require login for access. They can and do index login pages. So, essentially, they can index publicly available pages but they have no way to login and they probably shouldn’t for security reasons.

        Hope this helps.

        -Greg