Verification of manual Google visit

Check of logs by IP?

[johnser]

Has anyone who has received a PRO checked their logs to see whether a browser visited from one of the standard Googlebot IP blocks?

Is it likely such a spam-cop would come from the same IP blocks?

Reason I ask is I'm thinking this is the only way to verify if you have had a manual penalty applied if you're PR0....
TIA
J

[Brett_Tabke]

They have it in the cache, why would they visit by hand?

[piskie]

I was looking forward to seeing this post fly off at tangents all over the place and you just spoiled it Brett.

[johnser]

To check the nature of any cloaking on the site if you made sure it didn't appear in their cache

[Brett_Tabke]

I doubt they do cloaking checks from a Google domain.

[Yidaki]

Even if the page comes from the google cache you would see log entries for your external elements (graphics, scripts, css). However, i wouldn't invest too much time on it. ;)

And if the penalty reason was cloaking better start creating something new.

[johnser]

ok - thx all