Protected content visible to Google?

[ayoungren]

Is it true that excerpts of protected content are visible to Google?
What are recommended SEO practices for protected pages?

thanks in advance

[Eduan]

I believe anything blocked by s2Member is not put on search results. Though excerpts from posts/pages are sometimes visible.

But just to make sure they aren's, go to WP Admin -> s2Member -> Restriction Options -> Alternative View Protection configure everything there and see if it solves your problem.

Hope this helps.
Also remember to report back,
otherwise you leave me worrying.

[ayoungren]

I do want the text content to be found in search results, just not the images.

If I want things to be visible in search results do I choose-
None (do not filer any Wordpress queries)

[Harty]

There may be a smarter solution than mine, but how about having two pages for each item, one with photos, and one without.
On the page without photos you have a button that says, 'click here to see this page with photos'. That page would be protected by s2member and only available to logged in viewers.

[ayoungren]

Thanks for the suggestion... might be a good work around.

[drbyte]

You could do something like this:

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<?php if (current_user_can("access_s2member_level1")){ ?>
    <?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery option1="value1"]'); ?>
<?php } else { ?>
    Some public content.
<?php } ?>

ref: http://codex.wordpress.org/Gallery_Shortcode

You could set different width and height using size="themename-thumbnail" in the above code

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<?php echo do_shortcode('[gallery columns="3" size="themename-thumbnail"]'); ?>

Add this to your function.php

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add_image_size( 'themename-thumbnail', 340, 400, true );

This should protect your images from everybody but your members.

Sam

[Cristián Lávaque]

Another way would be using conditionals around each image. WP Admin -> s2Member -> API / Scripting -> Simple/Shortcode Conditionals

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[s2If is_user_logged_in()] <img src="/my-image.jpg" /> [/s2If]