: This is a bad idea. This practice, of showing one thing to search engines and another to users, is called cloaking: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66355 It will cause

@Samaraweera270

This is a bad idea. This practice, of showing one thing to search engines and another to users, is called cloaking: www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66355
It will cause your site more harm than good, with respect to search engine results; it "may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index", according to the above link.

Other suggestions:


Can you place marketing/not quite real data outside of your authentication wall that both users and search engines will find useful?
Can you place, again, outside of the wall, a subset of the "content that [you] would like to see indexed by search engines", perhaps as a demo?
Can you accept not being crawled until you open your site to the general public?

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