It is Quite simple. You just need to change your browser’s User Agent. To change your Browser’s User Agent follow the steps given below:
- Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Useragent.reg or you may also download it.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@=”Googlebot/2.1″
“Compatible”=”+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html” - Now Double-Click on the file Useragent.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry.
- Now Restart your computer. This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry.
- Voila! You’re done! Now you have become GoogleBot.
- For IE users : To restore the IE User Agent, Follow the Given Steps Below:
- Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Normalagent.reg or you may also download it:
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent]
@=”Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)” - Now Double-Click on the file Normalagent.reg to merge the registry file into your Windows Registry.
- Now Restart your computer. This is required to apply the changes made into the Registry.
- Copy the following code segment into a notepad file and save it as Normalagent.reg or you may also download it:
- For Opera Users : Opera allows on-the-fly for switching of User Agents through its “Browser Identification” function.
- For Firefox users : Just download User Agent Switcher extension for Firefox.
- Now Goto Tools -> User Agent Switcher -> Options -> Options.
- Click “User Agents”
- Click ” Add” and fill the following information in the form
- Description: Googlebot
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
- App Name: Googlebot
- App Version: 5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
- Platform: +http://www.google.com/bot.html
- Vendor:
- Vendor Sub:
- Click “OK”.
- Now you may change the user agent on the fly.