The Official Google Webmasters' Blog announced that they have discovered some new and innovative ways to get the spiders to crawl into places they otherwise have not been able to get into.
Lately they found ways to spider through Flash to get to the content on sites that use Flash which was a big no no in marketing to do with your site in prior times.
Now they believe that they have found a way to spider deep through sites to reach HTML pages that you can not get into without filling out a contact form or other form specifically looking for content that is not in Google's index. This way they can index more pages. Google's position is this creates a better user experience in that they will be able to bring to that user very specific content based on their search query. They will be able to index HTML pages deep within sites.There have long been pages that are considered the invisible internet. This will not affect your page rank and according to Google there are not that many pages that are a part of this experiment. But as with all experiments the end is usually not the intent at the onset.
Does this mean that the spiders will go through to sites intended for membership use only? There are a lot of sites where the site owner makes their money through their site being members only. If Google brings that information to the searcher is that not violating someone else's ability to make money?
What about members only posts on Active Rain? Will these intended to be private posts begin to show up on searches if the content fits the query and their is nothing else indexed within that search? Is the time coming where there will be nothing private any longer?
Google is offering FREE medical records storage on Google. This way your doctors and you just have one place to go to find your records. But does that mean that one day they will be able to index these files and share your private medical history with others?
Now according to the Google Webmasters' Blog; Google says they will not follow 'no follow links' to get content, they will not retrieve information where a password needs to generated and that they will not come into our members only type places to retrieve data and content. For now, this is their position.
On the other hand, just knowing that they know how to get this information is a bit scary if the wrong hands ever get a hold of Google.
I can see both sides, how about you?
Katerina Gasset, CIPS, Realtor ®, Business and Life Coach, Speaker and Author. Reach Katerina at: 561-753-0135
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