: Can Googlebot discover URLs that are not in an anchor? In my Search Console I had a sudden increase in 404's. They were linked from a webpage that listed files from the site in a table but
In my Search Console I had a sudden increase in 404's.
They were linked from a webpage that listed files from the site in a table but none of these URLs were nested inside an <a> tag.
This was the only instance of the URLs I could find on the page which led me to question, does Google still follow a url string even if it's not in an <a> tag?
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Yes they do crawl everything that looks like a URL. I have made a test (in German, but red="not crawled" and green="crawled"): www.sirpauls.com/welchen-links-folgt-google-ein-experiment/
Google crawled stuff like
<script>var test="www.example.net/page.html";</script>
or simply
example.net/page.html
So i think they only look for a URL patterns.
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