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Referencing links in Articles and Blogs
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Hi
I am wondering if the <sup>tag in html is picked up by google as a reference point?</sup>
I.e when you put a superscript in word it puts a small number next to your sentence. Then you have a list of reference at the end of the blog/article does google recognise this?
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Not 100% clear on the question.
But I think what you are asking is "Does Google recognizes footnotes, etc?. which is where superscript is often used. The short answer is yes, as I do not believe the size of words would have any factor for google in search. Referencing could only be a positive if only from a semantic perspective.
Hope this helps.
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I'm just going to leave this here. ; ) It would seem that all of the typical means of citation can be recognized as such. Perhaps too readily?
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Hi there!
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "reference point." Does Google recognize it for what purpose?
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