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Is it necessary to get keyword with links - to be counted?

by PressRelease
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Hey Guys,
I'm very much confused with this. Do you think that to get one of our links to be counted on google or other search engines it is necessary to have the keyword as anchor text? Don't the links with other texts bring quality backlinks? What do you think about it?

My question is if we I'm getting a backlink from a popular website with a page rank 4 or 5 with an anchor text 'my name' or 'some text' other than my keywords for my press release website, wont it help my ranking? Please share your experience with this. PS: Also assume that the link is dofollow.
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  • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
    All backlinks help but backlinks with proper anchor text are much, much better for SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Anthony
    Originally Posted by PressRelease View Post

    Hey Guys,
    I'm very much confused with this. Do you think that to get one of our links to be counted on google or other search engines it is necessary to have the keyword as anchor text? Don't the links with other texts bring quality backlinks? What do you think about it?
    If you get high quality links you take it no matter what the anchor text. It still will convey PR to your site and when that is mixed in with other anchor text backlinks it will help in ranking BUT you must have some anchor text backlinks because that anchor text is critical to telling what terms your page should be ranked for.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by Mike Anthony View Post

      If you get high quality links you take it no matter what the anchor text. It still will convey PR to your site and when that is mixed in with other anchor text backlinks it will help in ranking BUT you must have some anchor text backlinks because that anchor text is critical to telling what terms your page should be ranked for.
      You are right in the first part, but you can't tell google what your page should
      rank for. Too many people get hung up on anchor text. You can't tell google
      what terms your page should rank for. You can tell google what terms you
      would like to rank for.

      One of my pages I do all links for teachers resources. But what do I rank for?
      Lesson plans. I have never built a single link using lesson plans as anchor text.

      Let me ask you this.

      If I have a site, and I think I should rank for student loans, but my site is on
      trains, and I build a bunch of links with student loans, what am I going to rank for?

      If I have a site, and I think I should rank for student loans, and my site is on
      student loans, and I build links with student loans, what am I going to rank for?

      You can't say the first case would not rank but the second one would. Each one
      is building links with student loans. But only one really is on student loans. That
      one should rank for student loans. But google may have different ideas.

      I've seen people build links with a period only.

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  • Profile picture of the author PressRelease
    Thank you very much guys..@mike and @paulgl has shared something valuable.. Thanks.
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    • Profile picture of the author 4morereferrals
      links with no anchor text will help - but those with ... are preferred.

      There's tons of example tests that were done that fly in the face of relevant content, and links from relevant sites ... and those that say a site is now made "relevant to your kw term by the keyword anchor text you just placed as you made the link .... ok whatever ...

      If I have a site, and I think I should rank for student loans, but my site is on
      trains, and I build a bunch of links with student loans, what am I going to rank for?
      There are no absolutes ... how do we explain this?

      Is this site about click here?

      Is the term click here anywhere on the page? in the description, title anywhere?

      How'd it get a PR 10 and the main tld's index page is only a PR9?

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  • Profile picture of the author Bill_Z
    This is something I've wondered about as well. For example, when I comment on a blog and just leave my URL with no anchor text, what key words are given juice? A bit confused how that works...Mike and Paul's responses do help it make some sense...

    What I gather from their responses, and what is pretty much how I figured it, is that getting a link from your URL (with no anchor text) will help in conjunction with the anchor text links...and to Paul's point, this only may work to a certain extent, as if your site is about one topic, and your anchor text is another, Google still may choose what keywords to give juice to based on your site's actual content...

    If anyone could add any of their own experiences into this topic, that would be great.
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    • Profile picture of the author PressRelease
      Thanks for your reply. With my experience with blog commenting and on some discussion boards where they remove links if they find it as promotional, I tried adding links with either with my name or some other words other than keywords. But its a fact that the links are counted and some of them shown as backlinks in google link search. But I don't know how far it help me to get SERP for my keywords. I fear it will not help at all.. I don't know..
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    • Profile picture of the author PressRelease
      Originally Posted by asbharmal View Post

      If the ranking of the site is achieved then it is very obvious that you will get the ranking of the keywords also...
      but both require better optimization right??
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    There are no promises. However, I have found that building links with a term can help you rank for that term, regardless of on page content, to its a good way of broadening topical relevance of your pages in the search engines.
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    • Profile picture of the author PressRelease
      Originally Posted by jazbo View Post

      There are no promises. However, I have found that building links with a term can help you rank for that term, regardless of on page content, to its a good way of broadening topical relevance of your pages in the search engines.
      Its really a confusing thing, isn't it?
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