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Without submitting website on Google...?
GoodNewmover
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Is it possible to get your site viewed on Google without even submitting your website to Google?
...it's important to take the first step...action=reaction..
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If your website is linked to from other websites on the web, then, when Google crawls those sites it will follow the link back to yours and subsequently include yours in it's index. So the answer is yes, your site can be on Google even if you don't submit it directly to Google.Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
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If you don't want it in the google index for any reason then creating a file named robots.txt containingUser-agent: *
Disallow: /
in the root directory will stop the crawlers (so long as they obey this directive which most legitimate ones do).0 -
Both of the above posts are valid, but there is no reason you would want to be indexed by google and block the crawlers.
If you haven't submitted your site but have backlinks to lots of sites/directories you will be on the index somewhere 100%.0
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