We have a Drupal 7 site which has a significant amount of information in members area database which is access controlled by permissions and roles. I have noticed that in google many of our member's only pages are appearing. There are over 20 so far.
As the information for these pages is derived virtually by Drupal via taxonomy and views, I am wondering whether the member's pages google finds are the result of members searching and google memorising the search or whether in fact google is searching the site and creating the pages.
Can someone please advise me how best to stop google from finding and accessing members only data. Help or even some understanding of how to manage this would be of great assistance Thanks in advance Roger
Roger, in your admin/configuration page is a specific Google config chapter. You should be able to make some changes there, e.g. whether users can opt-in or out regarding tracking their movements. There should be other settings as well. Why don't you start looking there? Eljay
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Roger arelem@bigpond.com wrote:
We have a Drupal 7 site which has a significant amount of information in members area database which is access controlled by permissions and roles. I have noticed that in google many of our member's only pages are appearing. There are over 20 so far.
As the information for these pages is derived virtually by Drupal via taxonomy and views, I am wondering whether the member's pages google finds are the result of members searching and google memorising the search or whether in fact google is searching the site and creating the pages.
Can someone please advise me how best to stop google from finding and accessing members only data. Help or even some understanding of how to manage this would be of great assistance Thanks in advance Roger -- [ Drupal support list | http://lists.drupal.org/ ]
Can someone please advise me how best to stop google from finding and accessing members only data. Help or even some understanding of how to manage this would be of great assistance
If Google is accessing members-only pages there is clearly an access configuration / security issue on your site. Please see if you can access one such page as an anonymous user. I would think it would be accessible. It might just be a matter of permissions for the content types if these pages are to be accessed by all authenticated users irrespective of ownership. If you want more fine grained permissions you will probably require content access module or custom access rule implementations.
Thanks Anoop
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