Title: Will Google read non WordPress posts?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Will Google read non WordPress posts?

 *  [adamcm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamcm/)
 * (@adamcm)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-google-read-non-wordpress-posts/)
 * Hi all,
 * Hopefully I explain this properly. I have upload an html file into my public 
   domain that I have installed wordpress on. Will Google still read this HTML file,
   or will it only read my posts since I have WordPress setup?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [flamenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flamenco/)
 * (@flamenco)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-google-read-non-wordpress-posts/#post-1502059)
 * Hi,
    That depends. If it’s the “index” file of your site root, such as index.
   html, index.php, index.asp, etc., then yes. (and of course, this assumes that
   you’ve actually submitted your site to Google, or somebody already in Google 
   links to you) Google (and your browser) are looking for this as the start of 
   your site. And I’m assuming by “public domain” you might have been referring 
   to the public_html folder or equivalent, which is your site root.
 * If you have WordPress installed, and you’ve added a link to WordPress to the 
   non-Wordpress HTML file, then yes.
 * But let’s say you just stuck a file like dreck.html into your site root, and 
   nothing else links to it. Google won’t care about that. There are some non-linked
   files that Google looks for, such as XML sitemaps, and a handful of others that
   are more server-related, but no, it won’t just find a random page. Their programmers
   would code to avoid pulling in any old file; this means that Google will get 
   meaningful data.
 * There could be one exception to this: if you submit your site to Google as “adamcm.
   com/dreck.html”, instead of “adamcm.com” then Google may list it.
 * Cheers, Dave
 *  Thread Starter [adamcm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/adamcm/)
 * (@adamcm)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-google-read-non-wordpress-posts/#post-1502317)
 * Thanks that is what I was looking for. Now if I added a link to a different HTML
   file on a particular WordPress post, would Google read all of the contents within
   the file that is being linked?
 *  [christoebe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christoebe/)
 * (@christoebe)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/will-google-read-non-wordpress-posts/#post-1502318)
 * Google will read all links that is made available to it through the sitemap. 
   So if any pages outside your wordpress you want google to read, make sure it 
   is available in the sitemap.xml that you have submitted to google webmasters.
 * also make sure that your site’s robots.txt file does not prevent the bots to 
   access the link you want google to read.

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