Does user engagement or content of pages requiring login help SEO?

[EverettChen]

Hi!

Our company is trying to come up  with a few pages with some manuals to teach our users how to use our products.

However, these pages require username and password.

My understanding is that user engagement will help a website's keyword rankings and Google will not be able to crawl or have access to pages requiring login as it doesn't have username and password.

Based on that idea, does that mean all the content and user engagement on those pages requiring login won't help our overall SEO?

Thanks in advance!

[EverettChen]

Hi Martijin!

Thank you very much for your answer.

I wasn't sure about that but you really helped me confirm it.

Thanks!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Pages that are behind a login or need authentication don't really add up any additional logic for SEO as Google can't see them either. So that's why I usually would focus most of my attention on the public pages.