(Entry was posted by Jim Munro on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/10/2015).

Does Google Treat URL Mentions Like Links?

Mark Traphagen originally shared: Does Google Treat URL Mentions Like Links?

A popular theory in the SEO community is that Google may sometimes treat a mention of a URL on a web page like a link, even if that URL is just text and not an actual hyperlink.

To find out we enlisted the help of our IMEC testing group. Click through and read the post below for +Eric Enge`s summary of what we discovered, as well as our complete methodology and full results.

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Jim Munro: ...adding to our previous answers on this.
Mark Traphagen: Does Google Treat URL Mentions Like Links?

A popular theory in the SEO community is that Google may sometimes treat a mention of a URL on a web page like a link, even if that URL is just text and not an actual hyperlink.

To find out we enlisted the help of our IMEC testing group. Click through and read the post below for +Eric Enge's summary of what we discovered, as well as our complete methodology and full results.

If you find this interesting and helpful, don't forget to reshare!