Does google follow text links without the link?
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Hi
A short question.
Lets say I have been mentioned in an article online like "also mentioned on www.domain.com is" but the url mentioned is not a link does that give any seo value at all to my site?
Does it count towards building a brand i googles eyes by being mentioned a lot but not awarded a link?
Hope you can help clarify
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If your brand is been mentioned alot on line it can be good for the following:
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It can have a positive impact on Auto Suggest if people search for it a lot (Brand+ Term)
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You can research out to websites who mention your brand and ask them to link back to you with the article, I would track brand mentions with Google alerts.
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But overall if you have heaps of people just typing your brand term on a bunch of websites it is not going to help your overall link building efforts, you need to do the hard work to reach out to sites to acquire the links.
Its all relation ship building.
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You won't be awarded any PR value if it is not a link, at best someone might copy and paste the text link and visit your site. In that case I woud usually contact the web master and ask to make the text link a proper link.
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