Allow Google search even restricted articles

[PM TechArchitecture Team]

Is there any way to allow Google search even for restricted articles?

I have two spaces: 

• Space A
  • Allow anonymous access
  • Contains articles completely opened & restricted to some users
• Space B
  • Accessible only for user X

I want to encourage the anonymous users to be curious about the restricted articles in space A.

But It seems Google search can crawl only opened articles.

Is there any idea to allow Google search can crawl the restricted articles? But the articles in space B must not crawled.

[Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Accepted solution]

So, in space A you want to make some content available for certain users and for Google, but not for anonymous and for other users.

For that, Google would need to be able to authenticate itself as one of the users for which you allow the content. That is just not possible.

To me, this whole model doesn't make sense.

Maybe a better way would be to have two variants of the same content in space A:

1. The full one, restricted to certain users.
2. A shorter version, completely open for anyone, including anonymous, Google, etc. This would indexable by Google and could generate interest for the full one.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

I agree with this.

You are saying you want your content to be hidden from some of your people, but visible to the rest of the world.

That makes no sense, and there's nothing to stop your people pretending to not be part of your organisation.

It would be better to simply let your people see the pages you've currently hidden from them.

[PM TechArchitecture Team]

Hello, Aron and Nic.

Thank you for your reply. I think I missed telling detail.

I just mean that allows the Google search only, and when anonymous people click the search result, people are redirected to the login page. So they are encouraged to login our knowledge base.

Is it impossible?

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

I understood your desired outcome correctly (probably Nic did, as well), but this is not possible. You cannot show your content for the Google crawler, but hide it for the world.

(I still think that the alternative approach I suggested, using "include" macros and such, would work.)

[PM TechArchitecture Team]

I agree with your alternative approach no.2. It is a good idea.

Thank you for your confirmation that my question is not possible.