google question

[Chris]

do you have to have robotos.txt to get google to spider??/

[hive]

No.

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Your best bet for a speedy index inclusion is asking some people who run related sites for links.

[Chris]

No.

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Your best bet for a speedy index inclusion is asking some people who run related sites for links.

well google is hitting my site already but my stats show robots.txt keeps getting requested

[Nismo]

hell no. I have tons of google listings and no robots.txt

[nojob]

no you do not.

[psili]

well google is hitting my site already but my stats show robots.txt keeps getting requested

I think the spiders default behavior is to request that file, so if it's there the spider will know what to index or not.

[xfile]

I don't use robots.txt.

[OzMan]

Yes, to get listed fast on these servers it would be moooy bwayno to have a el robotos punta txt