The words used to link to your Web site are important so that you get top rankings for your company’s Web site. However, knowing the length of such text links to improve your link building is something others have discovered through Google research.
Targeting not only the right keyword but also the keyword length is a priority when using link building to improve your visibility in Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other search engines.
How many words does Google consider to be best for Web site link building? Shaun Anderson, a blogger, was inquisitive enough to do a test of his own. Here are the results of his experiment to build the best links.
The Experiment
Shaun Anderson created a text link that had 50 nonsense words, and each word was 6 characters long. Then he conducted a search for a keyword that had a top ranking and added these words to the search.
For example, “drive traffic to website lsdki” then if Google has indexed a link with the nonsense word “lsdki” it would list that site.
The best length to maximize Web site link building? 55 Characters
Out of 50 words in the text link, Google counted eight and with 7 spaces this equals 48 characters. So remember the magic number 55 – for getting the most out of link building techniques.
Another tip is to include the most important or top ranked keywords for your Web site in the first 55 characters of your link. If you’re not sure what your top keywords are, then contact SearchCircus.com to get started with a keyword research analysis as well as monthly link building. We have a program that will fit your budget and get you to the top of the search engines with our list of link building directories.
