anchor seo question!!!

[sovereignn]

Alright so I'm looking for some veteran input here.

I'm going to create a new authority website so I'm going to have hundreds of product reviews on my website.

My question is one of the competitors have around 500 backlinks per page yet they don't have the same anchor I'm going for but VERY similar.

Say im trying to rank dell laptop x80 review

in this case their keyword is x80 review and they have none with dell laptop x80 review

would it be hard to compete for my keyword STILL? they have around 20 pr2-5 backlinks none with my exact keyword

and also from the looks of it all the backlinks are coming from around 50-100 sites so that takes down the strength of the 500 a lot as well.

Thanks ahead guys!

[Chris Sweeney]

Go for it. If you think it's going to be a profitable keyword, there's pretty much no reason not to go for it. And if he's not using your keyword for his anchor text at all, that's great. Just shoot some high PR links at your site with your anchor text and see what happens. Like I said above, it's worth a shot if you think the keyword is going to be profitable.

[hotboy18]

I agree that you should go for it and put you keyword as anchor text in higher ranking sites so you can out rank your competitor. As long as your backlinks having higher page rank that your competitors and they don't have your targeted keyword at all, you should be able to out rank your opponent easily.

[kjmeylan]

SEOMoz has an interesting vid where they show, based on their tests, that partial match anchors actually carry more weight than exact match does.

Sounds like your competitor is doing it right. A good way to get tons of partial match anchor texts is to fire up Google keyword tool and have it return results which include your phrase. Hope this helps.

[Becker13]

Look at his page info (right click+view page info) and see what keywords he is going after. If your keyword is not in there it means its an easy win.

Google looks at the exact words before similarities, so you should be good to go

[sovereignn]

Thanks for the responses guys I appreciate it!

Also Alex I did what you said and it just tells me about my connection. I'm using google chrome are you using something else or an addon?