Search Engine Indexing

  • emauldin

    (@emauldin)


    5 years, 2 months ago

    I understand the plugin is billed as “SEO Friendly” but, in the spirit of due diligence, have you (the developers) received past reports of the Age Gate plugin interfering with or preventing search engine indexing?

    How does the app ensure bots are not blocked from crawling and indexing the site?

    Thank you so much for the response!

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  • Plugin Author Phil

    (@philsbury)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @emauldin,

    Before showing the age challenge, the plugin checks to see if its a bot requesting the page. Currently, the PHP implementation uses Crawler Detect, and if that returns a bot, age gate is not shown.

    The JS implementation is a little less robust in that it does a match against a long string of bots (I’ll paste it below). As JS doesn’t change the main content, it’s slightly less crucial – but in the next major version a JS implementation of Crawler Detect will be used.

    Both versions also support custom bot strings in the advanced settings if something is slipping through the cracks.

    Have you seen something that suggests it’s not working?

    Here’s that list of bots in JS mode

    Thanks
    Phil

    Thread Starter emauldin

    (@emauldin)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Thank you very much, @philsbury . This is very helpful.

    We have not seen anything to suggest the app is not working but, as I mentioned, wanted to do a bit of homework before implementing the app. Just to be clear, other users have not been reporting issues with SEO, correct?

    Plugin Author Phil

    (@philsbury)

    5 years, 2 months ago

    Hi @emauldin,

    No there’s not been many reports, and I think anything that was reported has been addressed. Everything should be in these forums somewhere if you want to give them a search.

    Thanks
    Phil

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