irrelevant anchor text

fir3d · 11-19-2009, 11:55 AM

Blog commenting is hard to get approved if you have something like "home mortgages uk" etc in the name so what if you used a regular name would that still help your site for serps or pr or both?

josspam · 11-19-2009, 12:04 PM

uhmm I don't think so... you really need the keyword.

Jocy

Tom Goodwin · 11-19-2009, 12:13 PM

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Originally Posted by fir3d

Blog commenting is hard to get approved if you have something like "home mortgages uk" etc in the name so what if you used a regular name would that still help your site for serps or pr or both?

Can't say this helps or not, but my general strategy is:

I will do a blog post with irrelevant anchor text (e.g., a fake name), if the blog is either an .edu/.gov site, or the page PR (not the domain) is PR3 or higher.

steveweber · 11-19-2009, 12:19 PM

Having targeted anchor text is preferred of course. However, there is still some value with the link regardless of the anchor text so long as there is content nearby which has the keywords and/or is related to the topic.

getsmartt · 11-19-2009, 12:23 PM

hmm backlinks, especially Do Follow backlinks, are worth something no matter what their link text is. Yea a good keyword stuffed link is great for SEO, but even an irrelevant link will still carry some weight with the search engines

warrich · 11-19-2009, 12:29 PM

always use competitive keyword

webdevpro · 11-19-2009, 12:37 PM

Irrelevancy (in anchor text) may lead to high bounce rate and is not a recommended practice.

Alexa Smith · 11-19-2009, 12:40 PM

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Originally Posted by webdevpro

Irrelevancy (in anchor text) may lead to high bounce rate and is not a recommended practice.

Not recommended by whom? The commonest anchor text in the world is surely the words "Click here"? Nothing could be less relevant than that.

jasonmorgan · 11-19-2009, 12:50 PM

Here is the the correct answer.

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hmm backlinks, especially Do Follow backlinks, are worth something no matter what their link text is. Yea a good keyword stuffed link is great for SEO, but even an irrelevant link will still carry some weight with the search engines

I guess his nickname is 'getsmart' for a reason.

I can think of an alexa top 50 site that has done exactly this.

It's a porn site so they can't exactly use 'porn' as their nickname when leaving comments. Commenting as 'bob', 'dave' and 'george' hasn't held them back and you'd be surprised where they have been able to drop links by using this method.

dburk · 11-19-2009, 01:02 PM

Hi fir3d,

Most Blogging platforms automatically add the "nofollow" attribute to comments which prevents the passing of PR linkjuice to your page. So, unless you are posting on one of those rare blogs that have disabled this feature, you aren't getting any PR juice so you shouldn't be concerned about PR.

You can gain significant value by posting very useful comments, Some folks will follow your link back to your website because they liked your post. This won't be targeted traffic, unless you are posting on Blogs that are relevant to the topic of your website.

If you are clever, you may be able to work your keyword into your post in a fashion that people don't find offensive i.e. "In my 23 years of writing home mortgages I have had many a client that was worked in this [blog topic] industry and this is what most had to say... " This will get your keyword on the page and may generate targeted traffic as well.

flash22 · 11-19-2009, 01:05 PM

As others have said, of course it's best to have your keywords in the anchor text. But think about it from the point of view of the search engines - the majority of links to any website has anchor text like "Click here" or "my website" or something generic like that. The search engines know that it's common and they're not going to devalue a link just because the author is not aware of SEO practices and anchor text. So it's still worth it, just maybe not as much.

jazbo · 11-19-2009, 02:25 PM

High bounce rate? I believe this is about the value of a non-anchot text link, and nothing to do with clickthrough behaviour?

A non-relevant anchor text link will still hold some value, especially if there is enough of them.

Example:

Do a Google search for "click here". Number 1 result is the download page for ADobe reader. Why? because so many sites added links with "click here" as the anchor text to the download page that it now ranks powerfully for that term.

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Originally Posted by webdevpro

Irrelevancy (in anchor text) may lead to high bounce rate and is not a recommended practice.

jazbo · 11-19-2009, 02:28 PM

I will also add a little tip I find works for blog commenting. Find a way to get PART of your keyterm into the name.

For example I was doing linkbuilding for a link exchange site (yeah I know it sounds nuts but they did not want their members to all link to them to create a footprint).

Now obviously a lot of people will delete a comment from someone called "link exchange", however using the name "Mr Links" got accepted nearly always....

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fir3d Active Warrior Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 80 Thanks: 8 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	irrelevant anchor text Blog commenting is hard to get approved if you have something like "home mortgages uk" etc in the name so what if you used a regular name would that still help your site for serps or pr or both?

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dburk Senior Warrior Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 4,482 Thanks: 137 Thanked 641 Times in 553 Posts Contact Info	Re: irrelevant anchor text Hi fir3d, Most Blogging platforms automatically add the "nofollow" attribute to comments which prevents the passing of PR linkjuice to your page. So, unless you are posting on one of those rare blogs that have disabled this feature, you aren't getting any PR juice so you shouldn't be concerned about PR. You can gain significant value by posting very useful comments, Some folks will follow your link back to your website because they liked your post. This won't be targeted traffic, unless you are posting on Blogs that are relevant to the topic of your website. If you are clever, you may be able to work your keyword into your post in a fashion that people don't find offensive i.e. "In my 23 years of writing home mortgages I have had many a client that was worked in this [blog topic] industry and this is what most had to say... " This will get your keyword on the page and may generate targeted traffic as well.
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flash22 Warrior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: irrelevant anchor text As others have said, of course it's best to have your keywords in the anchor text. But think about it from the point of view of the search engines - the majority of links to any website has anchor text like "Click here" or "my website" or something generic like that. The search engines know that it's common and they're not going to devalue a link just because the author is not aware of SEO practices and anchor text. So it's still worth it, just maybe not as much.
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jazbo Systematic Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Norfolk, England. Posts: 1,906 Blog Entries: 9 Thanks: 35 Thanked 298 Times in 217 Posts Social Networking	Re: irrelevant anchor text I will also add a little tip I find works for blog commenting. Find a way to get PART of your keyterm into the name. For example I was doing linkbuilding for a link exchange site (yeah I know it sounds nuts but they did not want their members to all link to them to create a footprint). Now obviously a lot of people will delete a comment from someone called "link exchange", however using the name "Mr Links" got accepted nearly always....
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