(Entry was posted by Jarek Tylutki on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 05/31/2013).

Will Search Engine follow the text URL with no "a href" tag?

Hi,

Will Search Engine crawlers follow the text URL with no "a href" tag?

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Federico Sasso: At least Google occasionally does, especially if that would lead to an up-to-now unknown to them link.
Martino Mosna: They would store and crawl the URL, aye. They also usually do not account it as a part of the Link Graph.
Bill Hartzer: Yeah, they definitely crawl all URLs that they find. That doesn`t mean that PageRank is passed, though.
Andrei Gherghel: Bill Hartzer Well...even if it doesn`t pass pagerank which is getting less and less important, it increases the visibility and helps in building the authority.