Link Text vs. Regular Text

difference to spiders?

[jschmeez32]

Does Google consider regular text different than link text?

Could a page be coded ENTIRELY in links and still get credit for having keyword "content"?

[AthlonInside]

text in links are treated with more weight.

No one will code entire page with links. If I am google engineers, I will ignore a page coded in all link as I can assume it is not designed for human but robots.

[2_much]

They are treated differently.

I've never seen a page coded fully in links ranking, but you could try.

[Krapulator]

I would image that somewhere in the algo it would measure the ratio of link text to normal text and ignore the page if the link text ratio is too high.

[echo1573]

[No one will code entire page with links]
if you will code entire page with links ,i think you will be punished by google,it is cloaking!
Echo

[Iguana]

I have menu pages that have just a header GIF and the rest consists of links - plus I am sure some site maps are just links. My menu pages are in google but by their nature they don't rank very well for any particular phrase

[takagi]

Just like keyword density, Google will ignore it if it is way too high. I wouldn't expect a punishment, just no or hardly any benefit.

[SEOtop10]

echo-

This is *not* cloaking. By the very definition, cloaking means showing something to the SEs and something different to the human visitor.

[whiterabbit]

there is a site that has many pages appearing at the top of the serps for the text-links on it This site is entirely constructed from links, i'm not allowed to post the url here, but if you want to see it stickymail me...

<edit>and it has a pr5</edit>

[killroy]

As a directory I have 1000s of pages with around 90% of content in links. Doesn't seem to harm, and is perfectly reasonable for visitors. There are several such pages with PR6 and PR5.

Don't think it particularly benefits though.

SN

[John_Caius]

I know of sitemap pages with 1000 links and no other content - they come up for certain terms, albeit reasonably obscure ones, including some two or three word phrases. And all the links are followed.

[jschmeez32]

I've seen pages that have entire sentences coded in link text. With little to no regular text. And have not seen many examples of pages ranking well with the content containing mostly links.

If anyone has any examples please sticky me.

I consider text link text to be more important as "off page criteria" - meaning that it tells more about the page the link is pointing to rather than the page the link is coded on.

[fathom]

I've never seen a page coded fully in links ranking, but you could try.

Well "and", "but" and "or's"... I doubt you would want as links, but many canonicals do very well... so do sites with large glossaries. :)