Title: Problem : googlebot is blocked
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Problem : googlebot is blocked

 *  Resolved [caratubo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caratubo/)
 * (@caratubo)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/)
 * Hello, your plugin works very well. I have a site in France. But I have a problem,
   the Google robot is blocked, yet I allowed Googlebot. I found the IP address 
   of google bot in my logs:
    66.249.78.83 66.249.78.76 66.249.78.69 66.249.69.28
   66.249.69.20
 * Thank you in advance
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/iq-block-country/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/#post-6171762)
 * Hi,
 * Can you give the User Agent if you have access to the raw http logs?:
 * Something like this:
 * “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
 *  [Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottblackopsca/)
 * (@scottblackopsca)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/#post-6171987)
 * Google tells me this is blocking their bots, I am trying to get more details 
   to post here.
 * Can you detail a bit of how you determine and allow a google bot even if the 
   country it comes from is blocked?
 * Thanks
 *  [Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottblackopsca/)
 * (@scottblackopsca)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/#post-6171988)
 * So far google will not tell me where the problem blocks are coming form but say
   their policy requires that a site is available everywhere, and they insist that
   I remove any location based blocking.
 *  [Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottblackopsca/)
 * (@scottblackopsca)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/#post-6171989)
 * Google will not provide details, just that any geo blocking is not permitted.
   
   🙁
 *  Plugin Author [Pascal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iqpascal/)
 * (@iqpascal)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/#post-6171995)
 * Hi,
 * Can you give the User Agent if you have access to the raw http logs?:
 * Something like this:
 * “Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)”
 *  [Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottblackopsca/)
 * (@scottblackopsca)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/#post-6171996)
 * I do….
 * Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
 * I also contacted you directly so I can send you the full log.

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 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Scott](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottblackopsca/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-googlebot-is-blocked/#post-6171996)
 * Status: resolved