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(Entry was posted by Jim Munro on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/29/2015).

Locale-aware crawling by Googlebot

via Richard Hearne   This is quite big for international SEO:

"Today Googlebot gets two new capabilities:"

"1. Geo-distributed crawling, where you may start seeing real (verifiable!) Googlebot user-agents crawling from IP addresses that appear to be coming from outside the USA."

"2. Language-dependent crawling, where Googlebot may set different Accept-Language headers in the HTTP request."   Locale-aware crawling by Googlebot Today we`re taking our first small steps to…
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Jim Munro: via +Richard Hearne ;
  • Richard Hearne: This is quite big for international SEO:

    "Today Googlebot gets two new capabilities:"

    "1. Geo-distributed crawling, where you may start seeing real (verifiable!) Googlebot user-agents crawling from IP addresses that appear to be coming from outside the USA."

    "2. Language-dependent crawling, where Googlebot may set different Accept-Language headers in the HTTP request."
  • Randy Milanovic: I think there's a blog post in my future on this topic!

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 01/29/2015).