Will googlebot follow a url that is not a link?

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

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  Joseph Asamoah: I have a simple theoretical question , if I have this on my webpage:
  
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
  
  <a title="Latest Soccer Highlights" href="www dot fmie dot org" rel="dofollow">www dot Fmie dot org - Latest Soccer Highlights </a>
  
  </meta>
  
  if Googlebot crawls the site will it follow or not follow the links? Which has more precedence the meta tag or the rel tag? Just curious to know your thoughts.
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  Dave Elliott: okay, well <a rel="dofollow"> or  ;<a rel="follow"> don't exist.... ;
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  Joseph Asamoah: Thanks Dave for clearing that up ... I guess my question was the "typical dumb SEO  ;question".lol ;
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  Jim Munro: Here's a useful page from Yoast, Joseph. ;https://yoast.com/articles/robots-meta-tags/
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  Edwin Jonk: From the expert panel in this weeks SEO Questions hangout on air on 00:24:59 into the YouTube video: https://dumbseoquestions.com/q/will_googlebot_follow_a_url_that_is_not_a_link +Joseph Asamoah
  
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