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How long can link text be (keywords in links)?

about putting keywords into links...

         

rincey

2:04 pm on Mar 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Lets say my site contains various pages with links to longer articles related to some keywords together with a paragraph out of the article containing these keywords in a form like:

This page lists some articles related to "green widgtes":

Grass is green
...lorem ipsum dolor green sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nulla volutpat luctus enim. Quisque id mauris widgets...

Green widgets in daily use
...vulputate, green nulla sed tristique gravida, diam sem dictum elit, ac vehicula widgets enim...

Trample on me, I am green!
...dales, massa mauris green mollis quam, eu ultrices dui felis non velit. In eget mi sit amet enim luctus ornare. Vivamus augue felis, placerat quis, facilisis widgets non...

At the moment only the article titles (italic in the above sample) are linked to the article. Now, after reading some postings about "linkrank" and "themeing" I think I should include the "green widgets" into every link which would expand

Grass is green
to
Grass is green - information about green widgets

My fears: Since I have up to 10 links on every page and every link would contain "information about green widgets" in addition the the words also showing up in the paragraphs - could this taste spammy? In this example there could "green" and "widgets" would show up at least 20 times on the page.

Finally, if I add the keywords to each link, should I add it as prefix or postfix? Up to how many characters does Google give any value to the link text?

Sorry for my broken english :)

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vitaplease

3:07 pm on Mar 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



If it looks natural and undisturbing your OK:

Personally, repeating identical very long anchortexts on every page does not sound very good looking to me.

In general, on a lighter note, repeating keywords = no paranoia if it looks similar to this:

[google.com...]

(27 time the same keyword in the link text and well over the suggested 100 links per page...;))