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Comment by digitallyfree

Uh, you don't really "allow" them to visit your website. All you can do is disallow them from visiting by blocking them using robots.txt. If you don't have a robots.txt stating otherwise they will crawl and index your site.

UPDATE: I suppose if you specifically allow the Googlebot via robots.txt, then in that case they could probably argue that you gave them permission to access the site.

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