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Hay

I created a page with tags on it and this page must be found by Google.
I would like to let GoogleBot the only one who is able to view this page so I thought I would be a good idea to put him in a usergroup I made called 'SearchEngines'. This usergroup should be the only usergroup that has permission to view tags.php.
How do I do this?
You can set the group for spiders.

btw: What you want to do is called Cloaking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloaking
Have good sport if want to reinclude your banned site Rolleyes
Showing search engines content that normal users can't view isn't a good idea.
Why not?
Have you read the wiki article?

Also take a look here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters...swer=35769

Quote:Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users or present different content to search engines than you display to users, which is commonly referred to as "cloaking."
besides that:
anyone who is able to fake his client to look like the google bot will be able to access the content.