{"id":17687,"date":"2023-04-26T08:06:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T08:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginejournal.com\/google-updates-googlebot-verification-documentation\/485283\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T08:06:18","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T08:06:18","slug":"google-updates-googlebot-verification-documentation-via-sejournal-martinibuster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketingnewsbox.com\/?p=17687","title":{"rendered":"Google Updates Googlebot Verification Documentation via @sejournal, @martinibuster"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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.<\/p>\n

Newly Updated Bot Documentation<\/h2>\n

Google added a new documentation that categorizes the three different kinds of bots that publishers should expect.<\/p>\n

These are the three categories of Google Bots:<\/strong><\/p>\n