We would like to know where googlebots search from - IP location?
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We have a client who has two sites for different countries, 1 US, 1 UK and redirects visitors based on IP. In order to make sure that the English site is crawable, we need to know where the googlebot searches from. Is this a US IP or a UK IP for a UK site / server?
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Yeah - thats what we thought, we were surprised not to be able to find any links or anything on it!
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Can't find the reference now, but I'm 99% certain googlebot only crawls from US IP addresses.
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