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what i mean is say :
<link>HomePage : Heres where you will find great widgets</link>
instead of
<link>HomePage</link> : Heres where you'll find great widgets
would the fact that widgets is in a link make any difference to the sites likabilty to SE's?
also - i have heard of it being done before - but how can you remove the silly underline that appears on all text links? as this would help lots in terms of design...
oh - one more thing thats related. can you get a spider to follow all links on a page, but not actually index it using the 'follow' command? or does it simply skip it out? and if it does follow but not index, does the text on the page make any difference (in terms of this keyword in link text thing?
sorry that all a bit jummbled!
Harley
Try to keep the link text short and descriptive. I would try to not have the link text read "home", but at the same time, I wouldn't have the link text read "HomePage : Heres where you will find great widgets". The internal and external link text is extremely important, so you will need to be creative and find a way to tweak it for the best effectiveness.
Regarding the removing the underline in links:
This can be done with very simple CSS code.
Regarding the spidering issue:
This can certainly be done by using this tag:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow">
Regarding the removing the underline in links:This can be done with very simple CSS code.
The relevant property is 'text-decoration' [w3.org]
[edited by: andreasfriedrich at 3:41 pm (utc) on Sep. 19, 2002]
so are you saying that i could have a page that wont see any human visitors from engines thats full of short consise links to all the pages in the site like :
<link>Widget Page</link>
<link>Blue Shiney Widget Page</link>
<link>Red Fluffy Peanut Page</link>
that would still be followed by all the spiders and give all the benefits of the link keywords ect, plus the extra spiderabilty it would give, without cons?
and could someone point me to a relavent place where i might find the advantages of using link text keywords ect?
Thanks again so so so much guys...
Harley
so are you saying that i could have a page that wont see any human visitors from engines thats full of short consise links to all the pages in the site like :
Like you want to learn about "link reputation" (using KW in links) I've emailed you an interesting article about it.
Regards
regarding the CSS thing, i see how to state that all links should be underlined, but i dont see the call to say links not to be underlined...
Itīs all there. Just have a look at the list of allowed values.
Value: none ¦ [ underline ¦¦ overline ¦¦ line-through ¦¦ blink ]
Notice the first one: none
got confused by the single partition line between it and the others...
Thanks alot for that article - very useful, but not surprising to see link reputaltion is so important...
does this apply to internal pages too? if i have a page "1" with a link to page "2" with a keyword link word, does this increase page "2"'s prominace for that keyword...?
