Number of characters near the link Google use to index

[Digimon]

Hello, I hope that this thread observes the new rules of the forum
;)

I'm asking myself about the number of caracthers near the links that Google indexes as part of the anchor text. I mean, if I have a description in DMOZ (or in other site) with 300 caracthers will all of them count for rankings?

Thanks,

[vitaplease]

Digimon,

that would indeed be nice to know. I have not encountered any messages with specific information on that. You could test this yourself with two different sites with very specific unique words.

also check: [webmasterworld.com...]

[ciml]

Has anyone here tested this?

It can't be too hard, but the test requires that the near link text does not appear on the linked to page, and that no other links to that page have the same word in or near the link.

[Digimon]

Would be nice test it several persons and later compare the results. I also think that inbound links and anchor text are essential for Google...Or, maybe, GoogleGuy could help us.... GoogleGuy? ;)

[Robert Charlton]

About directory descriptions and text near the link... I've wondered about this with relation to text before the link and text after the link. Your own description in a directory would follow your title link, so it would make sense to me that Google might take this into account and weight trailing text more than leading text. Regular pages, though, might not have the same patterns as directories... so the weighting might be a compromise between the two. This is all theory... I've not tested it at all.

[Digimon]

Thanks for your contribution Robert but we are almost in the same point. How many characters (depending if we are talking about directories or regular pages) are indexed by googl before or after the link...