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I lost months of Google indexing to a single missing UA pattern
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I lost months of Google indexing to a single missing UA pattern
tl;dr — If your site has any kind of geo-gate, age verification, or country-specific wall, and you wrote a "let Googlebot through" rule in your middleware: your rule is probably wrong. Google's URL Inspector does not send a Googlebot UA. It sends Google-InspectionTool. Match that explicitly, or you'll lose months of crawl budget without ever seeing the cause in Search Console. I'm shipping noctias.tv — a multi-language portal — alongside our old…
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