Will putting a one page site up for all other countries stop Googlebot from crawling my UK website?

[lbagley]

I have a client that only wants UK users to be able to purchase from the UK site.

Currently, there are customers from the US and other countries purchasing from the UK site.

They want to have a single webpage that is displayed to users trying to access the UK site that are outside the UK.

This is fine but what impact would this have on Google bots trying to crawl the UK website?

I have scoured the web for an answer but can't find one. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[effectdigital]

No impact if you exempt Google's user agent ('googlebot') from the redirects. That way Google can crawl properly without it turning into a fiasco (which it will if you don't exempt them, as they sometimes crawl from different data centres - but only one at once - which does have a fixed location)

If you fail to exempt googlebot then they will only see the page which is rendered to the location of the data centre they are crawling from, so they will think your site keeps going up and down, one page then many pages (which will cause a huge mess)

Remember: exempt Google from the redirects or things will get messy

[lbagley]

Is there some guidance on how to do this? I have looked on the web but am struggling to find anything. Thanks

[effectdigital]

If you're an SEO / marketing person, the likelihood is that you'll need a developers help. They should know what you mean when you ask to exempt a certain user-agent (Googlebot) from the redirects

[lbagley]

Thank you Kindly