Yesterday, Google’s Matt Cutts posted a video as a “public service announcement” asking SEOs and webmasters who are blocking GoogleBot from accessing their CSS and JavaScript files to stop blocking Google from accessing those files.

Matt Cutts said it will make for a better crawl and give Google get a better idea of what is going on with your site and return better results to the user. Here is the video:

Going forward, will you block GoogleBot from accessing your CSS and JavaScript files? Take my poll:

Going Forward: Will You Block JS & CSS Files From GoogleBot?

Here is the transcript of this video:

Personally, I rarely block these files from Google or anyone else.

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.