Anchor Text to Content Ratio

[NathanArizona]

My Home Page has about 500 words of content, but when I crawl the text it brings up about 1400 total words when counting all the anchor text links (I believe all are in the navigation or images).  All of the link are internal and relevant (it's a huge site), but I am worried that they are diluting the copy.  Is that likely the case?  What's a good ratio?  Thoughts?

[TakeshiYoung]

There's no set "ratio" that Google looks at to determine the relevance of a page, and they're smart enough to determine what portion of your page is navigation vs content. Homepages don't typically have a lot of text content, so 500 words doesn't seem amiss.

If you're worried that you have too many links in your navigation, you may want to install a tool such as CrazyEgg to see which links people are actually using, and remove the extraneous ones.

[KevinBudzynski]

Are the links for SEO purposes or for users? If they are for SEO purposes alone, I would get rid of them (always focus on your prospects).  Like Takeshi said, if you watch your data, it will guide you into what you should do.

[NathanArizona]

Thanks guys!  Yeah the links are for users.  I think I've got the answer I was looking for.