I'm trying to get a small website (100 pages or so) crawled and indexed by Googlebot, but due to the fact that it 301 redirects users from US IP addresses to a holding page, Googlebot US follows the redirect and only indexes the holding page. No non-US versions of Googlebot attempt to crawl or index the site.
I don't think that hreflang tags could help me here, since there is no "everywhere except USA" hreflang code. Also, the holding page doesn't seem like a good candidate for an "en-us" hreflang anyway, because it doesn't have similar content to any other page on the site (it's just a short message saying "not available in USA").
I know Googlebot crawls from non-US IP addresses, so I would have expected a non-US Googlebot to try to visit this particular site.
I considered adding an "en-GB" hreflang to the site to prompt a UK Googlebot to crawl/index the site, but then I'm worried that only UK users will see pages in the site rank (thus limiting the site's potential to rank); what I want instead is for all non-US users to see pages in the site rank (i.e. all English speaking users/regions outside of the USA).
Thanks for any advice!
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