[thelist] Are plain text urls picked up by search engine bots?

[Raditha Dissanayake]

Hi,

I could be wrong here, but my opinion is that google will follow these 
links but they do not make any contributions to page rank.



Dunstan Orchard wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> If I post a plain text url on a web page will it get picked up by the 
> search engine bots out there?
>
> So will this:
>
> http://www.1976design.com/blog/
>
> Be treated the same as this:
>
> <a href="http://www.1976design.com/blog/" 
> title="">http://www.1976design.com/blog/</a>
>
> In the scheme of things?
>
> I'm thinking of Google's treatment of links to sites, and wondering if 
> it actually has to be an active link, or if the text alone is enough.
>
> I'm guessing it has to be an actual link, but I'd like some 
> confirmation is possible.
>
> Thanks very much - Dunstan
>
>


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