Google Updates Googlebot Verification Documentation

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Brought to you by: Monday, April 24, 2023 News, SEO Google Updates Googlebot Verification Documentation By Roger Montti Google updated their Search Central Documentation to on verifying Googlebot, adding documentation about user-triggered bot visits, information that was missing from previous Googlebot documentation, which has created confusion for many years, with some publishers blocking the IP ranges of the legitimate visits. Google added a new documentation that categorizes the three different kinds of bots that publishers should expect. These are the three categories of Google Bots: That last one, GoogleUserContent is one that's confused publishers for a long time because Google didn't have any documentation about it. This is what Google says about GoogleUserContent: Keep Reading... 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