Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'blocking'

Google Retraction: Blocking Regions Is Not Cloaking

Yesterday, we reported that Google's John Mueller said that if you block a whole region from accessing your site, it would be considered cloaking and thus be against Google's Webmaster guidelines. Since then, we have seen many comments on that...

Updated: Google Says Blocking Countries Outside of the US is Against Policies

A Google Groups thread has a webmaster who has been receiving a lot of rogue spider attacks from the Africa region. He wants to go as far as ban the whole continent of Africa. But he is concerned that by...

Google's Remove URLs Feature Removes For 90 Days Only

Just a tidbit based on a Google Groups thread, using the Google Remove URLs feature will only remove the content from Google for 90 days. After 90 days, if you do not block the page from crawlers or tell crawlers...

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