Friday, October 31, 2008

Importance of Varying your Anchor Text

By Julie Johnson

When it comes to obtaining paid or bartered links, the focus is often on the anchor text. Immediately a webmaster will request their top keyword linked to the homepage. Or wisely a secondary keyword linked to its corresponding internal optimized landing page. This is industry standard, right? You want to rank higher for that keyword, so you get links with that keyword!

A link-buying wise webmaster would say that should be done most or half of the time. There are other things to use. You should mainly use your URL, as this is an utterly natural term one would link. Almost always, natural links link from anchor text starting with "www." If one were writing about this great site he or she found that has all imaginable sorts of bicycle seat covers, in all spectrums of colors and fabrics and size, he or she would not likely link "bicycle seat covers"; one would say " I found this fantastic sire www.bicycleseatcovers.com, and I adore their seat cover selection." This would appear most natural. You may also link your business name at times. Yes, you already rank #1 for your actual business name, but what is wanted is to add credibility to your link profile. This tactic accomplishes this task.

If you are stepping over Google's boundaries, you do not want to show a spike of artificial links. This would be best applied when you are obtaining a large amount of lower quality links, blog articles for example. Be sure you mix up the anchor text. The quantity of incoming links are going to help your site overall more than worrying about the exact anchor text. So toss out a few logical site mentions or specific product mentions to keep it real.

Think of the handful of purely natural (unpaid) awesome high PR links you have acquired, from simply being a great site, or having business connections. Maybe you spoke at a revered convention, and that site gave you a link. Perhaps you are supply a national brand that lists you on their site. What specific words would be linked? Not "cheap socks", that wouldn't be typed in on the seminar agenda.your business name would be the link. You are getting authority from that PR7 link, regardless of your anchor text. These are all incoming links, they are all of value in the big picture, and natural links will offer long term rewards, while keeping you safe. - 16003

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