Matt Cutts Says: Geo-location is not Spam so you are free to use Redirection Based on location…

Geo-Location is not Spam

 Hello friends we are here to tell you a special news that is related to your blogging field. Knowledge is must for every field so, we it is necessary to be active every time so that we can face new issues and problem easily.
Today’s hot topic is Geo-Location or simply we can say Redirection based location. This is new term for us so first we go through this term and try to understand what it’s actually mean.

Geo location is nothing but the web page of content that is visible by both users and Googlebot. So, a big issue appear on this. We know that every good work have similar bad works available find by people. Like the newton’s third rule motion.   

What people do, they redirect Google bot to a web page with content that is not visible by users but read by Google bots. This is come under spam and a form of cloaking (according to wiki it is nothing but a SEO technique in which the content presented on Search Engine Spider is different from the presented on user browser ). The word spam and cloaking is given according to Google guidelines.

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What Google expects from us

Always treat Googlebot as a user accessing your webpage/website from United Nation. If you are agree with this term then it is good for you else you will be targeted by Google like the head shot of counterstrike and this is Google with no mercy. So what is the solution? How can we can safe ourselves?      

Solution

Matt cuts clearly says that Geo–location or redirecting users based on their location is not considered as spam, you are free to use redirection based on  user location.

Matt cuts simple says that Google will not consider any web page as spam if they are using Geo-Location base techniques as a Spam.

For better understanding let us take a very basic example, you are showing ABC content to Google Search engine and XYZ to users according to their location. So, this is not comes under spam condition and not violates Google policies. Suppose if a user came from Spanish IP address or Spanish domain to your website and you redirect it to Spanish version of your page, that’s not an issues, you are free to do this.

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Geo-Location is used by Google also when people came from different location Google send them to their location.

Audience Views till Now

People say that by redirecting the GoogleBot to the US version of the site, means that other versions will not simply be indexed 

Conclusion  

Treat GoogleBot like a user and enjoy.
Try to avoid cloaking.          
Respect Google J

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