use virustotal for a fast way to guarantee a googlebot visit

TheMostHatedMarketer · Feb 4, 2026

ive been using virustotal as a sort of indexer now and it worked quite well.
since virustotal is owned by google they basically send a googlebot to check your site for malware. takes like 5 seconds as well. i used it for a new blogger recently and it indexed it in 24 hours.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/home/url

superstar11 · Feb 5, 2026

can anyone verify this?

Steptoe · Feb 6, 2026

Tried this with a few urls using the same method I use for my main indexing tests. Triggered a few visits from various IPs, including one with a useragent of 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; Pixel 4a (5G) Build/TQ2A.230505.002; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/112.0.5615.136 Mobile Safari/537.36 GoogleApp/14.16.27.29.arm64 AppEngine-Google; (+http:// code. google. com/appengine; appid: s~virustotalcloud)' but no actual Googlebot visits yet. Will check back in a few days.

@TheMostHatedMarketer did you use this on sub pages or root?

bhseoworld · Feb 6, 2026

u r seeing the google-inspectiontool or the cloud security fetchers , not the actual search indexing bot . huge difference
i spent a few months in 24 testing every owned by google property for indexing triggers ( vt , translate , page speed insights , etc ) . they all crawl ur site within seconds because they need to verify the content for security / rendering , but that data stays in a different datacenter bucket . it doesn't feed the crawling queue of the search engine
if ur site is in the discovered - currently not indexed hell , vt won't save u . it’s like showing ur passport to a airport security guard instead of the immigration officer . they both work for the government but the guard won't let u into the country lol

TheMostHatedMarketer · Feb 14, 2026

Steptoe said:
Tried this with a few urls using the same method I use for my main indexing tests. Triggered a few visits from various IPs, including one with a useragent of 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 13; Pixel 4a (5G) Build/TQ2A.230505.002; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/112.0.5615.136 Mobile Safari/537.36 GoogleApp/14.16.27.29.arm64 AppEngine-Google; (+http:// code. google. com/appengine; appid: s~virustotalcloud)' but no actual Googlebot visits yet. Will check back in a few days.

@TheMostHatedMarketer did you use this on sub pages or root?

I created a new blogger and I always struggle with indexing them and when I shared it to virus total it for indexed the next day.

bhseoworld said:
u r seeing the google-inspectiontool or the cloud security fetchers , not the actual search indexing bot . huge difference
i spent a few months in 24 testing every owned by google property for indexing triggers ( vt , translate , page speed insights , etc ) . they all crawl ur site within seconds because they need to verify the content for security / rendering , but that data stays in a different datacenter bucket . it doesn't feed the crawling queue of the search engine
if ur site is in the discovered - currently not indexed hell , vt won't save u . it’s like showing ur passport to a airport security guard instead of the immigration officer . they both work for the government but the guard won't let u into the country lol

I think I fell for the classic correlation doesn't equal causation.

Here's another site that I use for indexing as well it's the cloudflare radar URL scanner.

Since this gives you a public link & it seems to speed up indexing.

@Steptoe have you tried it before?

https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan

hijerry · Feb 14, 2026

bhseoworld nailed it with the passport analogy lol. I've built indexing scripts in Python that hit like 15 different Google-owned properties and tracked whether actual Googlebot showed up after. The security crawlers come fast but they're NOT the indexing bot. What actually works for me is a combo of GSC request + pinging from an already-indexed page with internal links. Way more reliable than any trick.

Steptoe · Feb 15, 2026

TheMostHatedMarketer said:
I created a new blogger and I always struggle with indexing them and when I shared it to virus total it for indexed the next day.

I think I fell for the classic correlation doesn't equal causation.

Here's another site that I use for indexing as well it's the cloudflare radar URL scanner.

Since this gives you a public link & it seems to speed up indexing.

@Steptoe have you tried it before?

https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan

I can give it a try, but first impressions are that there are no actual href links for bots to crawl on the public pages, and they're blocked in robots.txt

Code:

Disallow: /*scan/*

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