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Only sharing lessons with certain users and not everybody?
Willem de Ru
asked this on November 11, 2010 09:08
I am using screensteps.me now to communicate information to a number of people at a specific client for whom I am doing consulting work. screensteps.me works very well for this purpose. Ideally I do not want to share this information with everybody in the world because some of the information is confidential. I am not sure if it would make sense to add a feature to screensteps.me whereby a user can select who should have access to which document?
If this is not viable, I am wondering if search engines would see the screensteps.me pages. If it is not indexed by search engines, there is a degree of privicy by only sharing the document's url with the people that I want to see the document and not with others.
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Regards
Willem
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I forgot to add as well: often times it is very good if one's screensteps.me documents are indexed by search engines because we all love having visitors, the more the better! :) (Just in some instances confidentiality is required as in the scenario that I have just mentioned.) So I am not sure what the best answer is to the above question that I have asked.
Wliiem -
Thanks for the feedback. The only way a ScreenSteps.me page would get indexed is if some other page on the web pointed to it. We may even start including a tag that tells search engines to not index ScreenSteps.me pages no matter what since most people aren't going to want their ScreenSteps.me content indexed.
As far as limiting access to just a few viewers, we have a few ideas.
1. You could password protect a page.
2. You could enter emails addresses for a page. An email would be sent to each address with an "authenticated" link in it. The only way to view the page would be via the authenticated link.
Those are two of the ideas we are tossing around.
Regarding indexing in search engines: If you wanted the content indexed, why would you use ScreenSteps.me as opposed to posting to a blog, your own website, etc.? What do you see as the benefit of having the page on ScreenSteps.me instead of something like WordPress?
Thanks for the feedback.
Greg, thanks for the feedback.
Re limiting access: It is very useful to know that the pages are not indexed in a search engine. I can therefore use screensteps.me even for instances where I need to limit access as in the scenario that I have mentioned. For added access control both ideas that you are tossing around sounds good and would work for me.
Re indexing: you are quite right. If one really needs visitors, one will rather post it to a blog or a website. Hence, search engine indexing is not going to be required in screensteps.me.
Thanks!