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Does Google Index Links in [code] BBCode as backlinks?

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I do not believe it will count that as a backlink. I think google only follows hyperlinks in <a> tags (when viewed from the source code). It will definitely index the link as text, but I doubt it will follow that link or count it as a back link to your site to improve your PR (I figure that's what you were getting at?).

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If you create a BBcode link in a postor sig, then the link is displayed on the forum as HTML by the bulletin board software.

Your browser does not recognise BB code so this is needed.

Hence yes it is a valid backlink.

So long as the site allows indexing from google, and the link is DoFollow it will be a valid contribution.

If I create this link with BB ccode,. view the source of this webpage, it will show as HTML Code :

This Link Here

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URLs have to be in an <a> or <link>, but URLs within 

 blocks aren't. They are plain text so no.

IPB also adds rel-nofollow to posted links, and Google (and I think also most other engines) ignores these for Page Rank purposes.

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To quote the code whcih is being fed to my browser and to the bots scraping this thread from my post above.

						&lt;!--cached-Wed, 07 Apr 2010 08:22:45 +0000--&gt;If you create a BBcode link in a postor sig, then the link is displayed on the forum as HTML by the bulletin board software.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Your browser does not recognise BB code so this is needed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Hence yes it is a valid backlink.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So long as the site allows indexing from google, and the link is DoFollow it will be a valid contribution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
If I create this link with BB ccode,. view the source of this webpage, it will show as HTML Code :&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href='https://www.neowin.net' class='bbc_url' title='External link' rel='nofollow external'&gt;This Link Here&lt;/a&gt;

The fact that it was created in BBcode is irrelevant. However the nofollow is relevant, it is counted as a valid link, but no weight is passed. The search engine does not treat it as BB code it just sees what the server / script produce, regardless of why they prodice it.

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