Page length and position in results.

Is position based on page length?

[Panic_Man]

Can anyone tell me whether Google uses a device to calculate page length that might affect ranking. We can't find what might be holding us back and as the site uses the sales letter format we thought it might be that. Any ideas would be welcomed.

[Macro]

The length of the page has no direct bearing on ranking. It may affect other factors like keyword density.

Google ignores text beyond 140K on any page.

[Herenvardo]

Some people say that google ignores everything beyond 140kbytes, others say 160k, and someone gives different data. In any case, I suggest you to try to keep your files smaller than 100k.
Even when this is not directly affecting in ranking, links somming from the bottom of large files, or keywords in the bottom of your page could be easily ignored.
Anyway, if your files are asp, php, or any other server side scripting, you have not to care the script file length, but the length of the html file that the script returns.

[devildude8989]

In my FTP program it says <page in question> is 21k.

Now does the 140k limit include pics or just raw data.

Becuase the page is long and graphicly intensive :¦

(www.123-freestuff.com) is what I am talking about :)

Thx.

[kovacs]

It's just the html content (including server side and php includes), not the images themselves.