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Can a submission typo cause problems?

like a trailing apostrophe

         

robertskelton

6:28 am on Apr 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If I was to submit a URL to Google, and what I typed in looked like this...

[site.com...]

...is it possible that Google goes there, can't find the page, and therefore decides that the whole site doesn't exist?

When trying to work out why someone's site isn't in the Google index, despite being in Dmoz, Google shows a result for [site.com...] when I search for the domain name. And that's all.

Mohamed_E

10:07 am on Apr 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Submission to Google is almost totally a waste of time. If there are links to the new site Google will find it on its own, if there are no links Google will ignore it even if you do submit it.

GoogleGuy

1:34 pm on Apr 26, 2003 (gmt 0)

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robertskelton, does [site.com...] work or does it return an error? If it works, I'd guess there's some page out there with a link to it, even if that's a typo.

robertskelton

9:03 am on Apr 29, 2003 (gmt 0)

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The page returns an error. It is a site listed in Open Directory, it has dozens of genuine incoming links, it has broken no Google guidelines.

The problem is discussed at Google Answers
[answers.google.com...]