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(Entry was posted by Joseph Asamoah on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/03/2014).

Will googlebot follow a url that is not a link?

I have a simple theoretical question , if I have this on my webpage:



www dot Fmie dot org - Latest Soccer Highlights



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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  • 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.
  • Dave Elliott: okay, well <a rel="dofollow"> or  ;<a rel="follow"> don't exist.... ;
  • Joseph Asamoah: Thanks Dave for clearing that up ... I guess my question was the "typical dumb SEO  ;question".lol ;
  • Jim Munro: Here's a useful page from Yoast, Joseph. ;https://yoast.com/articles/robots-meta-tags/
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