: Prevent Googlebot from following JavaScript redirect I run a website called isitsnowingoutside.com as kind of an experimental project. As I am still learning- it is far from perfect. The basic

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Watch this video by Matt Cutts or read it here.


So if Googlebot comes in, you check the IP address, and imagine we’re
coming from the United States, just redirect Googlebot to the United
States version of the page, or the dot-com, or whatever it is you
would serve to regular United States users. So geolocation is not
spam."

But. as long as you’re treating Googlebot just like every other
user, whatever IP address they come from when you’re geo-locating, as
long as you don’t have special code that looks for the user agent of
Googlebot or special code that looks for the IP address of Googlebot,
and you just treat Googlebot exactly like you would treat a visitor
from whatever country were coming from, then you’ll be totally fine.


This is what I would suggest to do :

Have the code for detecting location and showing the result on the home page itself. In this way, GoogleBot won't get redirected to some other page and will show your home page in search results instead of the page for Mountain View.

If you want all the other pages specific to a place to get indexed, you can list the links to all of them on a single page which Google can index.

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