Anchor text is what we call text links. You should always try and have all text links as descriptive keywords. When a spider follows the link to your page it should have an understanding of the content. Anchor text is a great way of improving your rankings on competitive keywords.
vanesa 0 Newbie Poster
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Jump to PostIt should still be all very realistic though ... If every link you have all has the same anchor text, it's going to look like you bought the links, and not like they're natural. You don't need links ... you need natural links.
Jump to PostAlso you should optimize the landing page determining the relevancy of that pages to the keywords you're using within your anchor text.
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Robdale 39 Practically a Master Poster
The anchor text is a hyperlinked words, the words when you click on the link. It gives your visitors useful information about the content of the page you're linking to. It also indicates search engines, what is the page about as well as it helps to gain rankings in search engines, especially in Google.
kronikmedia 0 Junior Poster in Training
It is also good to use a mix of keywords and use variations in anchor text. Stuffing anchor text with repetitive references of the same keyword can be seen as spam by search engines and avoided as far as possible. It is best to be safe as there is a thin line between genuine optimisation and spam.
Hafsoh 0 Junior Poster
Anchor text for inbound links is one of the most important factors in SEO, its enhances the relevance of the targeted Page. It's important to make the most out of your link by choosing the right anchor text, just having links is not the only factor to consider, What the link text says is very important, so therefore, the link text is an important indicator that tells the search engines what your page is about.
sam09 0 Light Poster
Hi,
And it's also a critical part to choose right keywords to use as anchor text to get good ranking on our primary keywords.
Dani 4,675 The Queen of DaniWeb Administrator Featured Poster Premium Member
It should still be all very realistic though ... If every link you have all has the same anchor text, it's going to look like you bought the links, and not like they're natural. You don't need links ... you need natural links.
bobchrist 7 Posting Pro in Training
Also you should optimize the landing page determining the relevancy of that pages to the keywords you're using within your anchor text.
mrandrei 0 Junior Poster in Training
Anchor text is the visible word on a clickable link. It is very important to SEO bec. it is a concise description of the linked webpage.
brainsteh 0 Newbie Poster
anchor text is test between <a> and </a>
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