What made venetsian at first place curious is the question “Are search engines smart enough to read plain text and determine if thats a link or not” since 95% of internet users don’t have HTML language knowledge and are not able to write a HTML linking code. That got him interested enough to run a experiment and see if search engines are in fact that smart to read plain text of a website URL and consider it as link, venetsian created a brand new website with just few pages, and he wrote his website URL in plain text in one of his other websites which was already crawled by Google search engine and Yahoo search engine. After couple days he notice that the bots were invited to the new site that he created, which means that search engine bots are smart enough to determine if a plain text URL (not linked) is in fact a URL attempt wrote by a HTML savvy user and they do give value to such links but we (me, venetsian or whoever else) have no clue.
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