(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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