SEO » Experiments
This experiment tries to find an answer to the question of how many characters long a URL can be and still get crawled and indexed by Google.
Enabling comments and custom Gravatars on your WordPress blog can encourage visitors to participate, but it also negatively impacts your page speed.
I found at least one example of Google treating a text URL like a link. However, what I found is not an intentional use of text URLs as a ranking signal.
