• dan1101@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I haven’t verified this is still the case, but in the past every URL you typed into Chrome GoogleBot would then index shortly later.

    ETA: Did a test and it doesn’t seem to happen any more.

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      1 year ago

      I work in SEO and have had many URLs that are orphaned and I go to them directly. It wasn’t until I asked Google to index via Search Console, or had it added to a site map and pinged Googlebot, that it would get indexed. You can live check if a page is indexed by using the site operator and entering the URL.

      If what you said was true, then even orphaned pages would be indexed from a visit and that just is not my experience as a professional.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah I made a unique HTML page on Friday and retrieved it in a stock version of Chrome. As of today there have been no GoogleBot hits on it.