Text Links

Simple question which a Google search didn't reveal the answer to:
If your website address is written in an article or on a page or whatever, in text, without being an HTML link that you can click on, will it still count as a backlink in Google?

 

you mean the anchor text ? if this article is included by google , it is a backlink to your site .

 

yes backlink is considered.page nofollow not.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backlink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink

I think a backlink is a reference that users can directly follow, so the "text link" by you won't be count as backlink by google

 

Yep, this is what I was looking to know. A site has written our web address on some articles, but they didn't make it a hyperlink. So I assumed that Google wouldn't treat it like a backlink. Which sucks but maybe we'll be able to convince them to make it a hyperlink...

 

the nofollow and do follow attribute matters a lot in such links.. if link is dofollow then google will consider it otherwise not consider it as a backlink !

 

Text is not considered as a backlink unless you anchor it with the a href code.

 

yes dofollow and nofollow does matter in text link. Google count your text links as backlink if it is dofollow otherwise not.

 

Without anchor tag <a href=.. your text link wouldn't be considered as a backlinks...