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Daily Byte of Info — “The Invisible Handshake”

Most people think search engines discover websites the moment they go live, as if Google and Bing are constantly sweeping the internet like a lighthouse beam. The truth is stranger. A new site doesn’t exist to a search engine until it completes a tiny, invisible handshake — a verification tag tucked quietly into the site’s header. Without that handshake, the site is a ghost. With it, the site becomes real. It’s one of the smallest pieces of code you’ll ever add to a website, but it’s the moment your site steps out of the shadows and into the world.