Zip Code Blocks the Search Engines!
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I have a site where when you visit the product pages, it asks for your zip code. This is obviously blocking the bots from crawling the site.
I know you can basically tell the bots how to ignore the zip code feature but I am not exactly sure how to do this.
Any help would be appreciated
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I know that may help but I unfortunately cannot post their site.
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Kindly post a link to your site and I will try to help.
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