I have some geo targeting code whcih I want to behave in a particular way if the site is being spidered by a robot e.g. google etc.
Is there any way to infer this?
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I have some geo targeting code whcih I want to behave in a particular way if the site is being spidered by a robot e.g. google etc.
Is there any way to infer this?
Presenting different content to search engine crawlers and human visitors – called cloaking – is a risky thing, and can be punished by the search engine if detected.
That said, check out this SO answer with several links to well-maintained “bot lists”. You would have to parse the USER_AGENT string and compare it against such a bot list.