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Hi,
I am putting a link to a Spanish site, mainly to help
there search engine optimisation.
It needs to contain España in the anchor text.
What is the best way to do this? (for optimisation
rather than the correct way)
Should I just use Espana or España ?
Also, what is the name of the squiggle above the n ?
TIA.

T.J. wrote:
> Hi,
> I am putting a link to a Spanish site, mainly to help
> there search engine optimisation.
> It needs to contain España in the anchor text.
> What is the best way to do this? (for optimisation
> rather than the correct way)
> Should I just use Espana or España ?

España or España or Espana.. I don't think it
matters, actually. (for optimisation)

> Also, what is the name of the squiggle above the n ?
> TIA.

tilde

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"Els" <> wrote in message
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> T.J. wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am putting a link to a Spanish site, mainly to help
> > there search engine optimisation.
> > It needs to contain España in the anchor text.
> > What is the best way to do this? (for optimisation
> > rather than the correct way)
> > Should I just use Espana or España ?
>
> España or Espa&ntilde;a or Espana.. I don't think it
> matters, actually. (for optimisation)
>
> > Also, what is the name of the squiggle above the n ?
> > TIA.
>
> tilde

Thanks for the reply.
I tried experimenting on Google
searching for España gives the same results as searching
for España with nearly 14 million pages
Searching for Espana gives nearly 2 million pages,
and searching for Espa&ntilde;a gives under 7,000 pages
Looks like the best way would be to include
España as the main link and Espana as a secondary link
(for optimising purposes)

T.J. <> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am putting a link to a Spanish site, mainly to help
> there search engine optimisation.
> It needs to contain España in the anchor text.
> What is the best way to do this? (for optimisation
> rather than the correct way)
> Should I just use Espana or España ?

España would be prefered. Note that "España" means "Spain". Would
"español" ("Spanish") or "en español" ("in Spanish") be more appropriate?

> Also, what is the name of the squiggle above the n ?

In English you would pronounce it "en-yay" with the n and the y as one
sound.
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"T.J." <> wrote:

> I am putting a link to a Spanish site, mainly to help
> there search engine optimisation.

Are you serious?

> It needs to contain España in the anchor text.

So it is about Spain?

> What is the best way to do this? (for optimisation
> rather than the correct way)

<a href="...">España España España España España España España
España España España España España España España España España</a>

(Jr pna whfg ubcr gung guvf urycf frnepu ratvarf qrgrpg gur
fcnzqrkvat nggrzcg.)

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