I can't find, in the ACP, where to grant permissions for search engine bots. Can someone point me in the direction, please? (v.3.3.0)

Anyone know where this setting is, please?

No one knows where the setting is to force search engine bots to use a certain permission set? I know it is in the ACP. I just do not know where, exactly. Please help me sort this.

Tools & Settings > User Agent Management > Manage User Agent Groups

No. The setting I am talking about is one where you can set the bots to have the same access as a given group on your forum. So, they can be guests, or have a higher access, if you so desire. They can also be forced to "view" a certain skin.

I am still unable to find these settings. Do they still exist in v3.0?

That was perhaps a setting in either very old versions of IPB, where the bots could be served the lo-fi skin. Or more recently it was a setting for CommunitySEO. Did you use CSEO?

I wouldn't give the bots anymore permissions than guests, nor less. I'd not serve a different skin to bots either.

What are you trying to do, it's possible you could do what you want, in some other way.

Hello.

This setting was removed.

Okay. Thanks, guys.

I just noticed that one of the bots was showing up on a hidden forum. It wasn't a media or an adsense bot. So, I wanted to make sure they could not crawl the hidden forums on my site.

The bot was proximic.

Oh, I have always set bot permissions as the same as guests.

Thanks for your input.

also I would permise to user agent to index pages... but force login to others visitors (200 visitors(returning 80%), 20 logged medium)

there are skin issue if i override it with a php condition

update: i am trying, but not know it work

if( ! ipsRegistry::member()->is_not_human )
{
 define( 'IPS_ENFORCE_ACCESS', TRUE );
}

also tried:

$bots = array(
	'Googl(e|ebot)(-Image)?/',
	'Googl(e|ebot)(-Mobile)?/',
	'^ia_archive',
	'Ask[ -]?Jeeves',
	'facebookexternalhit/([0-9.]{1,10})',
	'bingbot[ /]([0-9.]{1,10})',
	'Yahoo(.*?)(Slurp|FeedSeeker)'
);
if( isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) &&  ! defined( 'IPS_ENFORCE_ACCESS' ) )
{
	foreach($bots as $bot){
		$regex = str_replace( '#', '#', $bot );
		if( !preg_match('#{$regex}#i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) )
		{
			continue;
		}
		else
		{
			define( 'IPS_ENFORCE_ACCESS', TRUE );
			break;
		}
		unset($regex);
	}
}