ahref text in outbound links

[Shiznaught]

When linking to other sites from my pages, and even when linking to a page on my site, I sometimes wonder what to put in the text portion of the link. For example:

green widget <a href="url">site</a>

or

<a href="url">green widget site</a>

What are you thoughts?

Hope this is the right forum...

[Dabu The Dragon]

First of all you should use text that desribe the anchor page.
For example:

<a href="computers.html">computers</a> If the page is about computers then the links should demonstrate that.

As far as search engine promotion is concerned you what to use keywords in the text links.

So if you are advertising laptop computers, the text link should read.

<a href="computers.html">laptop computers</a>

[arrowman]

<a href="url">green widget</a> of course. Most users understand links link to sites by now :-)