Anchor Text Questions

[Random101]

I have been reading about anchor text and its importance, but I cannot find anything that tells me how to do it or when to do it. I have tried to search, and have read through a number of posts with no success, but there are too many pages of results to go through all of them.

Can someone explain this more clearly to me, or point me to a particular thread?

[KLaAz0r]

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[AnniePot]

The anchor text is the words that you place in a link, when creating posts, forum profiles etc. As an example:

<a href="mywebsite.com">My anchor text</a>

Hope that's clear enough...

[Sarah Russell]

Anchor text refers to the linked text in a link, not the link itself. For example...

<a href="http://www.warriorforum.com">Warrior Forum</a>.

In this case, "Warrior Forum" is the anchor text.

Using keywords in your anchor text when you create backlinks to your site (on places like social bookmarking sites, Web 2.0 sites, etc) is a good way to improve your offpage SEO.

[Miroslav Chodak]

Anchor text is the text inside a link that a user can click on. Anchor text is used by the search engines, including Google, to determine what a certain web page is. This is called link reputation. The more links point to a web page having certain keywords in the anchor text, the higher that web page will rank for that keyword. This is called link popularity. The quality of those links matters, too.

In terms of approach to link building, you want to take the most natural route possible. Natural means that the pattern of link building should look average to Google. In practice this means starting slowly, getting links from various places with widely varied anchor text, while at the same time, growing your site with quality content that by itself can attract links.

There is a lot more to it and the above is just a very basic primer. If you'd like to learn more about SEO, I suggest starting with downloading and reading Dan Thies'es SEO Fast Start: Download SEO Fast Start 2009 - The Best SEO Book Is Free

[Robert T Jillie]

Originally Posted by Random101

I have been reading about anchor text and its importance, but I cannot find anything that tells me how to do it or when to do it. I have tried to search, and have read through a number of posts with no success, but there are too many pages of results to go through all of them.

Can someone explain this more clearly to me, or point me to a particular thread?

Anchor text is the visible text of a hyperlink, for example the text link below would link to your home page
The HTML code for which is-

<a href=”http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com/”>YOURKEYWORDHERE</a>

The red text YOURKEYWORDHERE is the anchor text for this hyperlink (or text link as it is sometimes called).
This is a keyword that you want to target (a keyword you want to come up when a visitor searches for information you offer on your website)

Hope this helps!

[Random101]

Thanks for all the answers, it made it alot more clear to me what anchor text means.
So I could use anchor text on my hubpage on cardio? And link it back to my cardio website, right?

[Miroslav Chodak]

Originally Posted by Random101

So I could use anchor text on my hubpage on cardio? And link it back to my cardio website, right?

Yes, if "cardio" and your site meet Hubpages terms. They've changed their TOS recently and are much more strict particularly about the sites you can link to.

[Helps Here]

anchor text is the words you see when someone clicks the blue link. Make it something related to your site

[Bradley J Anderson]

Anchor text doesn't necessarily have to go to your home page, either. If the keyword you are anchoring is a good match for a particular post, you could link it to there, instead. You can also link to a particular spot on the page with a specific keyword, as well. That way if a visitor clicks on the link, they will go directly to the relevant info on your site.

Fellow Warrior Kurt has some excellent info on how to do these types of anchors here:

- Anchor Links and Google Search Snipets