>> I also agree that the proposed anchor text is too long and would recommend >> using a shorter keyword phrase. Most importantly you are writing for your >> readers not for search engines. > > I decided I could fake them out--I will put the 'excess' text she > asked for in a <span> and then either have it -1000px off to the left > of the browser window OR just use display:none; > > I think the SEs will still read it. I'm going to guess that you are joking, but just in case you're not, and for the benefit of others... This is a risky way of trying to trick the search engines. While you may not see any negative result right away, it could get the site banned form search engines. http://www.seologic.com/faq/hidden-text.php http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=66353 -- sarah adams my thoughts: http://twitter.com/sarahwbs my son: http://clarkeadams.com my work: http://sarah.designshift.com