No you can't put funny characters in your anchor text!

[Isha]

Was scratchin my head enough to frighten the bugs earlier. Tried to post a link on the Co-op with anchor text again & again & again & still it wouldn work.

Than after a while... after a long while... I saw the ' character that I'd put in the anchor text (I being a pretty cool grammar nut) & I tried deletin it. And it worked.

The moral is:
Don't put this character into your anchor text: '

[Brad West]

What kind of weird things are you doing

[Isha]

I had something like:

[link2]Financial Times's Save Well Street Market Story,http://www.wellstreetmarket.co.uk/wellstreetmarket/ft-publishes-save-well-street-market-story/[/link2]

[Brad West]

Now I see what you are talking about.
for some reason it is not taking an apostrophe. Google doesn't like them ether and not good for titles. You will see most of the time even asking a question in a title we won't use any punctuation. Google has shown us the ways of wrongness so we can make it happy.

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[link2]Financial Times Save Well Street Market Story,http://www.wellstreetmarket.co.uk/wellstreetmarket/ft-publishes-save-well-street-market-story/[/link2]

the other link button is a no follow button
Or just plain anchor text works.
I did take allot of the toys off of this editor!

Good to know about these things Thanks!

[Isha]

Yes, a short time ago I realised I should have typed the word "apostrophe" in this thread instead of just this: '
duh!

Thank you for the extra link to the blog post.

[Brad West]

Posting on the internet is very different at times.
We try to avoid punctuation especially in titles, using the and sign is also ant friendly. For some reason the bots don't really like these things. So as far as correctness you will defiantly find it with me.

[Brian Hawkins]

I've noticed it with I'm Sick Of too. Something I failed to consider when selecting a domain. I also failed to secure the domain without the apostrophe but that's another story.

[Leon]

Now I see what you are talking about.
for some reason it is not taking an apostrophe. Google doesn't like them ether and not good for titles. You will see most of the time even asking a question in a title we won't use any punctuation. Google has shown us the ways of wrongness so we can make it happy.

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[link2]Financial Times Save Well Street Market Story,http://www.wellstreetmarket.co.uk/wellstreetmarket/ft-publishes-save-well-street-market-story/[/link2]

the other link button is a no follow button
Or just plain anchor text works.
I did take allot of the toys off of this editor!

Good to know about these things Thanks!

Hi Brad,

What button are you saying is a no-follow button?

I see one with a cross hatch (#) and the normal one with the world
with the chain link below it and the one with the donkey image...

I'm squinting again.

However, all of the search engines look for words and not punctuation.
It is sad that they have abandoned and destroyed the English language
for a little bit of speed.

Thanks and Peace,
Leon

[Brad West]

The buttons on the bottom of the editor "scroll", "Think_F", "Think_M" In that line there is

Link this is a nofollow
Link2 is a button

We only use the nofollow if the site being linked to is not trusted.
As a matter a fact we will be taking a bunch of nofollow off the board because Google now likes out links to good sites'

If you scroll over the buttons there is a prompt that comes up on the left hand side under the control header.

Just squint a little harder.

[Leon]

Okay, Brad, I finally squinted enough to see what you are talking about.

I did notice there was a strange way of formatting the links in here with
a comma instead of the [url=] type of formatting. But I see also that you
can still use that for hyper-text links.

So the link2 places a button. I'm guessing that the bots read the url in
the buttons rather than skipping over them since you said that the link2
is a do-follow link.

Going to bed now... it's after 1 a.m. now. Maybe that is why my squinting
is so weak!

Peace,
Leon