Removing authentication starting point

[johnfox]

So that Zoom can index my entire site, I'm using one of the options you recommend, namely, setting one on the starting points as:
http://www.mysite.com/login.php?username=ringo&password=star

This works, except for one thing. If I then search for the term: login, Zoom will list the entire URL.
http://www.mysite.com/login.php?username=ringo&password=star

How can I eliminate this page from the index, but still use it as the starting point?

[David]

When you define a start point, there are several options what what type of start point it is (click on the "more" button).

One of the options is, Follow links only – which will only follow the links found on that page but will not index the contents of the page itself.

I think this should solve the problem.

[johnfox]

That works unless you have the image plugin turned on and there are images on that page. Even with a STOP/RESTART, the images get indexed and make the login page visible.

[David]

Try adding the URLs of these specific images to the Zoom page skip list.

[Ray]

Or you could enclose the content of that login page in ZOOMSTOPFOLLOW and ZOOMRESTARTFOLLOW tags.