For the regular bots indexing content for their search 100% correct.Im not sure its a good idea to display different content for bots, unless it is less content.
For Googles ads bot the rules are slightly different because it's only indexing the page so it can display a relevant ad. If you look in Googles documentation you can even give it credentials for content behind a login. You do not need to do that with phpBB because you can just use the permissions.
For example if you have chit chat forum you have denied bots group access because you don't want it showing up in search. You can give Googles ad bot access to it so it can display relevant ads.In my case I had private forum only available to registered users.
The one caveat is do not do this if you truly want it private because someone can spoof the user agent.
Statistics: Posted by thecoalman — Thu Mar 13, 2025 3:13 pm