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My new forum is one where members don't want guests reading their posts. So in permissions, I've set "View threads by others" to off. Guests can now currently see the home page (with articles) and the resources section, but all nodes have "Private" next to them.

A few questions:

1) Will this stop google crawling the site and affect search engine results?
2) Is there another way to just ask people to register before viewing the forum?
3) Is there a way of changing the wording or...

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