I want quasi-secure docs in SEO

I have docs on my site that I want to see in the SEOs.

An email address is required to access them the first time. They are asked for their email address in a select form. The surfer gets a cookie and can then open all the docs he/she wants.

That works great but I just noticed that these docs aren't showing up in the SEO.

Is the select form the problem? If so, does anyone have an idea how to get the documents indexed?

Now, I'm not sure here, but I'm going ot assume that when you say "SEO" there, you mean the search engines results pages?

If that's the case, then your problem is VERY simple.

You say that you're blocking access until the user enters their email address. Think about that for a second. Search engine robots can't enter values into forms, and therefor will never be able to reach the articles that you want them to while you use this system.

There is an option of serving them when you see that the user-agent is a search engine bot, but this should be avoided as it's a form of cloaking that all of the SE's are against.

If you want the pages indexed, you have to make them public. That's all there is to it. That way you'll still get visitors. Unfortuantely you won't be able to harvest email addresses quite so easily.