Comments on: Can Google’s Adsense bot understand gzipped html pages?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:43:57 +0000

SEO still works correctly. The Line just ensures that the server serves bots non-compressed pages.

By: derek

derek — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:14:49 +0000

BTW just to add, will it affect the SEO of your blog if you put up RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !Google*?

By: derek

derek — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:53:07 +0000

I just tested this one yesterday. I enabled the compression and got me surprised when my adsense got a significant drop from the other day. thanks for sharing this. I’ll disable first the compression and see how will it turn out.

By: riotz

riotz — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:14:46 +0000

The Adsense bot can NOT read gzip’ed content, I’ve been having the same problem on one of my sites, and was told this by Adsense support when I finally inquired as to what the deal was.

By: Diego

Diego — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:18:26 +0000

I recently implemented gZip’ing on a few of my sites and Google Webmaster tools could not longer verify my ownership – ie.: could no longer read the verify-v1 metatag I put on every page. I have searched everywhere but I can not find a definitive answer from within Google’s websites as to whether or not Google bots support gZipped pages.

Now that I found your post, I’m going to assume they don’t (or not always) and stop compressing pages for all robots (anything other than a known browser)…

Thanks