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Google’s John Mueller advises site owners to be careful not to block Googlebot if they choose to block traffic from an entire country. Mueller addressed this topic twice over the past week. It came up once during the Google Search Central SEO hangout on April 9, and also came up in a Reddit thread. During the Search Central hangout, a site owner submitted a question asking Mueller about blocking a country where they’re receiving an abundance of bot traffic. Here is Mueller’s advice.

Google announced that it is sending out notices to let publishers know that Google has begun crawling their websites with the advanced HTTP/2 protocol. The notice is only being sent out to those whose sites have been upgraded. Why HTTP/2 HTTP/2 (also referred to as h2) is a network protocol that servers, browsers and bots can use to transfer data from a server. HTTP/2 is more efficient than the older HTTP/1.1 protocol and is able to transfer data at faster rates the older protocol. The benefit… Source link