mainceaft
Senior Member
- Apr 10, 2013
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Hi all
I just want to warn everyone who block alot of bots from their site to make sure Googlebot not blocked
today went to one of my sites and I notice last visit from Googlebot was from almost a week .
I checked .htaccess and i found wrong code that blocking Googlebot ouch ..
to prevent this to anyone else I suggest use user-agent-switcher firefox addon
and add this new user-agent :-
Complete List here
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en
And test your site using user-agent-switcher .
I hope this helps .
I just want to warn everyone who block alot of bots from their site to make sure Googlebot not blocked
today went to one of my sites and I notice last visit from Googlebot was from almost a week .
I checked .htaccess and i found wrong code that blocking Googlebot ouch ..
to prevent this to anyone else I suggest use user-agent-switcher firefox addon
and add this new user-agent :-
Code:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Code:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1061943?hl=en
And test your site using user-agent-switcher .
I hope this helps .
