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        • censeo
          censeo last edited by

          Hi,

          could google's crawler recognize the following example as a link and will be crawl the url?

          • any experience?

            ty for your help

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          • censeo
            censeo @censeo last edited by

            oh..okay, thanks...can't be shown up as url, because it's not used in href or src attribute...

            thanks greg for your help!

            @all other experience are welcome

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            • AndreVanKets
              AndreVanKets @censeo last edited by

              I loaded the link in a program that makes HTML code visible. (For HTML noobs like me) here's a link to the program http://www.pagebreeze.com/

              If you edit the HTML Source with that link, and then view it, nothing is displayed..

              I'm not that clued up with HTML, but from what i can tell, Google wont see that as a link.

              Greg

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                censeo @AndreVanKets last edited by

                sorry, i don't have any other examples..

                What do you mean with html viewer?

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                • AndreVanKets
                  AndreVanKets last edited by

                  After testing that code in an HTML viewer, I would say no, Google wont see that as a link.

                  Could you give me a real example of the link?

                  Greg

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