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Can we put a character limit on the anchor text?

Discussion in 'Co-op Advertising Network' started by cgo85, Oct 29, 2004.

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    The ad COOP is a great and powerful tool! However, one of the prolems is that the length of the anchor text that some people use is much to long and can have negative affects on the design of peoples websites. Just wanted to know what others thought about this idea or if we will see a change in this for the future.
     
    cgo85, Oct 29, 2004 IP
  2. lorien1973

    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    Here Here. Some of them are too long or in all CAPITAL letters.
     
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    vauge Well-Known Member

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    #3
    I third that!
     
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  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #4
    There shouldn't be any in all capitol letters... if you find one, let me know. There also is a character limit on the anchor text (50 characters) which has been discussed a few times already. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Oct 29, 2004 IP
  5. cgo85

    cgo85 Peon

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    #5
    No offense to these people:

    "Printer Cartridges - Compatible Inkjet Cartridges"
    "Polycom Conference Phones Polycom Soundstation"
    "Create free blog / weblog / online journal / diary "

    The problem is when you have 4-5 ads showing and 2 or 3 of them are this long. Of course the obvious solution is "Don't show that many ads if you have a problem". But I think that it may benefit everyone if only 2 or 3 word max.
     
    cgo85, Oct 29, 2004 IP
  6. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #6
    Well *I* don't run any ads more than 2 words, so it would not affect me. And of course I like shorter ads myself. But what about something like, "Real Estate In San Diego"... that's 5 words and in my opinion not an obnoxious ad.
     
    digitalpoint, Oct 29, 2004 IP
  7. cgo85

    cgo85 Peon

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    Yeah you are right! Maybe it is a dead issue. I guess if everyone just considers each other while making their anchor text maybe it would be better.
     
    cgo85, Oct 29, 2004 IP
  8. expat

    expat Stranger from a far land

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    #8
    for some I also need 5 words e.g.

    UK Birmingham discount airport parking


    sorry
    M
     
    expat, Oct 29, 2004 IP
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    chachi The other Jason

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    #9
    some of the ads are all lowercase as well and to me that kind of looks like they don't belong. I used the CSS text-transform: capitalize; to make the first letter of each word capitalized. Looks much better. I don't think it will work on all caps though.
     
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    expat Stranger from a far land

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    #10
    put it to a vote if majority agrees there is a simple php commands combination (ucwords() & strtolower() to transform any var or array element into words stating with a capital letter which we can ask S to integrate for those php challenged.

    Or simply integrate it into your bit of the php.

    $bar = 'HELLO WORLD!';
    $bar = ucwords(strtolower($bar)); // Hello World!

    M
     
    expat, Oct 30, 2004 IP
  11. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #11
    Doesn't always work though... For example, something like "John McCain's Book" becomes "John Mccain's Book", or "eBay" becomes "Ebay".
     
    digitalpoint, Oct 30, 2004 IP
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    expat Stranger from a far land

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    #12
    fair nuff just kills 99.999% of probs....
    M
     
    expat, Oct 30, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #13
    Not only that, what about things with UK and USA in them? (just an example from your signature), something like "UK airport parking" becomes "Uk airport parking", or "USA Flags" becomes "Usa Flags".
     
    digitalpoint, Oct 30, 2004 IP
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    expat Stranger from a far land

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    #14
    hey... it's OK I don't want to get in an argument here.....

    For me it dosen't matter if uk is spelled uK or Uk

    uK airPort ParkinG on G same results as for the correct UK airport parking it just looks crap to which I agree.

    cheers and thanks for LED
    M

    PS Usa is correct isn't it? Europe is bigger.....
     
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #15
    No, Usa is not correct... :) It's USA (since it's an abbreviation).
     
    digitalpoint, Oct 30, 2004 IP
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    cellardoor Peon

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    #16
    Some are a bit too long. Googles ads are an appropriate length. What character length do they use?
     
    cellardoor, Oct 31, 2004 IP
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    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    #17
    Ok, well I just found one in all CAPS... that's not allowed, right?
     
    thebassman, Nov 1, 2004 IP
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    ResaleBroker Active Member

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    #18
    Until I read your post I didn't know about that option. I've implemented it and it does look better. Thanks.
     
    ResaleBroker, Nov 2, 2004 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #19
    What is the ad?
     
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    thebassman Asleep at the Keyboard

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    I knew you'd ask that... I'll find it again and let you know. ;)
     
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