The Importance Of Anchor Text In Backlinks
Posted by JR in Internet Marketing, Keywords and Niches, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization
Backlinks = SERPS and Higher Page Rank
One big component of Internet Marketing is Search Engine Opimization (SEO), which is basically optimizing your website to rank in natural search engine results with both on-site and off-site techniques, and a big part of Off-Site Search Engine Optimization is an effective link building campaign.
Backlinks to your site from relevant quality sites are essential for Page Rank (Google invented way to rank authority of websites, ranges from 0-10, 10 being highest) and Search Engine Page Results (SERPS). The more backlinks you have the higher you will climb in SERPS and the higher your Page Rank will be.
Backlink Anchor Text:
Anchor text is the words visible in the hyperlink of your backlink.
Here is HTML code to backlinks with anchor text:
<a href=”http://yourdomaindotcom”> KEYWORDS = ANCHOR TEXT</a>
The anchor text you choose in your link building efforts is crucial because this gives Google (and all search engines) relevancy for your websites.
The “rule of relevancy” is where the anchor text gives Google relevance for your site for respective keywords and associates your sites with those keywords and the more backlinks you have with those keywords in the anchor the higher in SERPS you will climb.
So basically the way to rank in SERPS for your keywords is to use them in your anchor text.
For example, if I want my website to show up in search engine results for the KW “cheap laptop computers” I will put that as my anchor text when I build links.
This anchor text method should be used in all your link building efforts and for all the KW that you want to rank for.
Just make sure to vary the anchor text in different links by adding other words so the linking looks more natural. For example, Buy Cheap Laptop Computers, Joe’s Cheap Laptop Computers, Cheap Laptop Computers for Sale etc…
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If we link to one of our internal pages with anchor text say “Search Engine Optimization” and if we put the same word in title and heading of the page we are linking ,do we have much additional benefit?
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Yes, this is how it should be done. If subpage KW is Search Engine Optimization, then this KW should be in the title header of the page, and about 5% density throughout the page and used as the anchor when building links back to that page.
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Another thing to remember is that varied anchor text is best. Having lots of the same text pointing to your site looks suspicious so use related terms as well. This looks more natural to the search engines and will help you rank better overall.
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Hi JR,
Yes everyone who wants to rank high in SERP must have a link building strategy and follow it consistently. Good to have a simple schedule drawn up or in your mind. I know of one SEO expert who spends 4 hrs SEO work daily.
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Its’ a great article about the importance of anchor text in backlinks. This is a very good source of infomation for beginners.
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The anchor text is still very important, especially when you vary the keywords and use Keyword Modifiers.
I do think Google will change their policy towards anchor text links, since 99% of them are created by the webmaster/seo guy and that’s not what Google wants.
So if anchor text backlinks loose value in the future, what’s the next step…?
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Well, I do not foresee them changing this, in fact Page Rank is their creation, all based on quality links with anchor text. Also, there is the on-site relevancy to kw that still plays a big role. I guess if there are changes in the future, we will just have to roll with the punches. But so far so good.
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One thing I have been wondering is, say your main keyword is morristown nj real estate, but you cannot use that in a few places, is there much benefit to using the anchor text of Jim in Morristown NJ in those places where you cannot use full anchor text? Otherwise I would just use my name but that is no as much help.
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The SE’s read all the words in the anchor, so Jim @ Morristown.. and Morristown… is okay because it includes your keywords. Plus, it varies your anchor so your linking looks more natural, if a site has 5,000 backlinks with the exact same anchor then it looks very forced, and link building should look natural, make sense?
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Yes, i think that the single most important thing in the whole SEO is the number of backlinks with the anchor text as your keyword. If for a given keyword you have a higher number of backlinks then you will win the game. Ofcourse, the PR of the backlink and the related websites are also important.
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Anchor text for inbound links is one of the most important factors in search engine optimization. Anchor text always represent theme of your site, its enhances the relevance of the targeted Page. Anchor text usually gives your visitors useful information about the content of the page you’re linking to. What the link says tells users and the SE what your page is about.