: Does Google crawl page when G+ logo is embedded? I have a robots.txt file in the root to prevent search engines indexing any of my sites. I have a social media management application embedded

@Megan663

If you put a Google +1 button on your page, Googlebot will crawl the page even if the page is blocked by robots.txt. From the Google+ Webmaster FAQ:


Does +1 affect how Google crawls my site?

When you add the +1 button to a page, Google assumes that you want that page to be publicly available and visible in Google Search results. As a result, we may fetch and show that page even if it is disallowed in robots.txt.

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@Yeniel560

You appear to have many misconceptions about how search engines and ranking works, so I would suggest reading through the various Google help files. Google itself has an SEO starter guide. To answer some basic points:


PageRank is based purely on links to your site and nothing else.
If your site is new then Googlebot will not be visiting very often anyway, so there is no reason to block it.
The number of visitors to your site (or visitor increases) is not a ranking factor at all. Google cannot possibly know how many people are visiting your site besides the ones it sends directly.
robots.txt prevents crawling of a page, but the URL may appear in search results under certain conditions.
However as Stephen points out in his answer, Google may crawl URLs with Google+ buttons, even if they are blocked by robots.txt

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