Google Says If You Are Blocking a Country’s Traffic, You Should Be Careful Not to Block Googlebot, T

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A new article on Search Engine Journal reports that website publishers need to be careful not to block Googlebot when they're blocking entire countries from accessing their site.



This was Google's John Mueller speaking on the company's Search Central hangout recently, in which he advised site owners to be careful not to block Googlebot if they choose to block traffic from an entire country. Mueller lives in Switzerland, so he isn't that fond of blocking entire countries, but he understands why people do it:

For SEO professionals and web publishers, the key point here is to not block Googlebot from crawling a website:

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  • If I block specific country then why should I care if Googlebot
    servicing that country would be denied access by my server?

    Is it not the whole idea to limit that country's internet systems
    and to starve them by cutting of bots from supplying fresh info?



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