grippo
msg:4472657 | 1:50 am on Jul 5, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Any chances for Googlebot seeing responses for blocked countries?
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Simsi
msg:4472981 | 8:58 pm on Jul 5, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Sorry grippo I'm not quite with you? The pages return a 200 OK even in blocked countries but the content shown there is clearly very different (a simple message).
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phranque
msg:4473087 | 1:08 am on Jul 6, 2012 (gmt 0) |
what method is used to classify visitors from those jurisdictions?
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grippo
msg:4473091 | 1:23 am on Jul 6, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Hi @simsi, because of what you replied, which was clearly stated before, i'm asking if is there any chance that Googlebot is seeing the simple message. Can you tell that?
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Simsi
msg:4473222 | 10:25 am on Jul 6, 2012 (gmt 0) |
@phranque: geoIP package used in PHP code
@grippo: Google from those local jurisdictions will be yes but (in theory) only from those areas. Also, looking at the results in google.com, it seems to have snippets from the page I would hope Google is seeing rather than from the simple "go away" message, so that's good at least.
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phranque
msg:4473341 | 8:11 pm on Jul 6, 2012 (gmt 0) |
it could be caused by secondary effects such as lost inbound links from these jurisdictions or degraded visitor engagement metrics.
you should be able to verify if googlebot's requests would have triggered the alternate content by analyzing your server access logs.
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