Comments on: Debunking: Toolbar doesn’t lead to page being indexed

By: EriC

EriC — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:25:50 +0000

Evidence suggests that Google IS indexing the page we visit when we have Toolbar’s “web-history” and “pagerank” on.

Why? Look at this for example:
http://www.google.nl/search?q=Controleer+of+alle+woorden+correct+zijn+gespeld.+site:goudengids.nl&hl=nl&start=10&sa=N&filter=0

This returns TONS of pages that says “check if the spelling is correct” (=no results of the query).

??? It seems that Google is indexing URL generated while we make search queries. Can you please explain?

By: Chris Grant

Chris Grant — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:39:08 +0000

Earlier this week we put up a nearly-blank page on a small site, with no links in or out whatsoever, and a filename that probably wouldn’t be guessed. I immediately browsed to the page using IE that has the Google toolbar. I looked at the logs a couple hours later — and saw that Googlebot had made 4 hits to the page 20 minutes after it was created and first browsed-to.

The information from Matt is now 5 months old. I’m wondering if things have changed. We can come up with no other explanation than the Toolbar transmitting data used by Googlebot.

By: recep

recep — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:59:59 +0000

that would be great if l see the book, by the day, how can we know if toolbar let our page crowled or not. but l use google toolbar for only short searches and for page rank sometimes. thanks for the article.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:22:09 +0000

Matt,
I would love to have that book, but I’m sure it has been given away by now.
Scott

By: Marcel Reklamebureau Fuursted

Marcel Reklamebureau Fuursted — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:17:32 +0000

It’s a good thing to test it. It may seem somehow logical, but doesn’t work IRL

By: bigmelon

bigmelon — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 09:07:04 +0000

Many people in China are talking about this issue. Still believe links is a vital part in Google indexed.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 09:47:43 +0000

Good Job Matt your truly a MythBuster. or Seobuster…

Its nice to know what true and whats a myth..
With seo most info out thier is just that – a myth

Matt Cutts the Seobuster……

By: Art

Art — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:59:01 +0000

This is great, but in the meantime, the folk at Webmasterworld are absolutely fuming. Some examples:

“It’s been a while since the last time we’ve seen this much criticism over Google. And MC popping up here and saying nothing has happened sure doesn’t help.”

“[Google:] Sorry, our index is currently experiencing technical difficulties… please allow 1 to 4 weeks for us to realize that there’s a problem and then an additional 1 to 6 weeks to fix it. Thank you for your endless patience. In the meantime, to relieve the stress of lost holiday profits, please a) spend more money on Adwords, and b) laugh at the funny fake collector card on Matt Cutt’s blog.”

By: Multi-Worded Adam

Multi-Worded Adam — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:42:39 +0000

No harm, no foul, Pat…now with last name and 20% more cleaning power!

I look at it like this: if someone would pay $16-$20 retail for a “regular” book, if it’s signed that’s generally worth quite a bit more. At the very least, start the bidding at $10 so at least you get half of face value and cover the auction off.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see bidding go into 4 digits for something like that.

By: Tom Gleeson

Tom Gleeson — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:08:40 +0000

My problem is I’ve setup a site using Google Apps, very nice product, easy to use etc. but it has a robots.txt file automatically applied by Google that stops all crawlers from visiting and indexing the site. And yes I’ve tried over-writing the file, no luck. Am I missing something or is not the point of a web page to be found and read. Maybe I should try some of that Goggle Toolbar magic and recite some SEO-vodoo incantations, looks like magic is all that I’ve left to get my site on Google.