Do robots have to follow links ?

Thomas Merlin (tom@grolier.fr)
Mon, 06 Jan 1997 23:38:45 +0100


Hi again,

Sorry for this one-time-in-a-life newbie question that has been discussed
thousands of times on this list, but do robots have to follow links ? I
mean, will they browse/scan a page that has no link pointing to it ?

I guess it would be hell if those kinds of pages could be referenced
because everybody would publish more and more pages full of keywords and
descriptions, etc.

Thanks for any help.

Tom.

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