: How to hide product prices from search engines when they vary by country? We have a site which sells items online only for US customers. The site checks the location based on IP and decides

@Alves908

What I finally did was to always block the price to bots.

Used a code similar to this:

function _bot_detected() {

if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']) && preg_match('/bot|crawl|slurp|spider/i', $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) {
return TRUE;
}
else {
return FALSE;
}

}


More info at: stackoverflow.com/questions/677419/how-to-detect-search-engine-bots-with-php

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@Gail5422790

There are two ways you could handle it - unfortunately both are not ideal solutions...


You could remove the microformats markup from your pages - but this will affect the people both in the US and outside looking at your results
You could create different versions of your website for different countries to be indexed in results for these countries. This will take a lot of work and set up and also you will need to wait for Google to change their results (and in the end they still decide what they show)


It looks like there is no easy answer here and your users might just have to be content with seeing different prices in search results and getting different prices when buying from resellers.

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