# Allow google access to logged in categories

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [October 25, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-google-access-to-logged-in-categories/131899 "2019-10-25T19:56:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 25, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/allow-google-access-to-logged-in-categories/131899/1 "2019-10-25T19:56:57Z")

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So making going into /admin/customize/robots  
Using sitemap plugin, I noticed this at the bottom. If I wanted to allow access for google to all posts that require login to view how would this part be changed?

Or would I just use Allow statements for all the categories?

I’m strictly looking at SEO as I changed the visibility of some categories recently and would like google to crawl the pages still.

\<%- if SiteSetting.sitemap\_enabled? %\>  
\<%- unless SiteSetting.login\_required? %\>  
Sitemap: \<%= request.protocol %\>\<%= request.host\_with\_port %\>/sitemap.xml  
\<% end %\>  
\<% end %\>

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