Ever run in to a situation where you cannot legally or practically show your web site’s content to U.S. users? Did you know that if you block U.S. users, you are also blocking Google from accessing and crawling your web site. GoogleBot travels from the U.S. and if you block U.S. users, you are technically blocking Google from accessing your web site.

That is the question one webmasters asked in a Google Webmaster Help thread. His suggestion, which he asked Google for approval on, was as follows:

I’ve seen this on some sites, the effect looks like this:

Is this solution acceptable for Google? Yes!

John from Google said:

Got it?

Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.