What are the pros and Cons of Assigning Registered Status for spiders/Bots
Pro:
It allows the spider/bot, to see more of your forum.
Con:
It allows the spider/bot, to see more of your forum.
If they're users they'll access areas such as the UserCP which visitors won't be able to access by default. You're better off to leave them as guests.
Yeah, its better to leave them as guests, you don't want the bots to crawl datas like friends, usercp, editing profile, avatar, signature, etc.
You could also set up a new usergroup for them, call it Bots, give almost no permissions but more permissions then guests have.
I'd not recommend that though.
KK Thanks for the suggestions.