Anchor Text Length

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by thebassman, Oct 4, 2004.

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    From what I can tell, the anchor text length for any ad can be up to 50 characters... when you have 5 lined up in a footer, if some of them are that long, it can make for a very wide footer... any way we could maybe limit it to 25 or 30? People really shouldn't be using anchor text longer than that anyways...
     
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  2. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #2
    Sorry... it's going to stay at 50.
     
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    #3
    any particular reason?
     
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    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    Not complaining - just curious.
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #5
    A few...

    • Unicode characters can take up to 3 bytes per character. So even as it is, depending on the language, there is a 16 character limitation already.
    • More importantly, 50 characters is not unreasonable. For example Mesotholioma Lawyer In Pennsylvania would be a perfectly legitimate anchor text, and it has 35 characters.
     
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  6. thebassman

    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    Yeah, I suppose. ;) That's why you're the man, and I'm just a "Berserker" ;)

    Is there a size limitation on how big the font has to be on the page? ;)
     
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    #7
    No, there is not a size restriction.
     
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    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    Hmmm... maybe I'll shrink it a little bit more then, so it doesn't look as funny. ;) Thanks again, Shawn. :D
     
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    I had to do that; shrink it a size to get it to fit on the top left of my pages. some of the anchors with all caps messed up my table formatting
     
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    Yeah, all CAPS and really long ones are still throwing me off... I'm going to keep playing around with them, though.
     
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