Secret Backlink & Powerful SEO Technique using Anchor Links...

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Here's a secret backlink & powerful SEO technique that not many people use...

Use ANCHOR Tags, with RELEVANT KEYWORDS...

For example a href=yourpage.html#ANCHOR-KEYWORD

So, let's say you had a bunch of relevant info scattered throughout your page, well, create a 'mini menu' that links to each sub-headline, and use the keywords as the a name=ANCHOR-KEYWORD...

Does this make sense?

Let me know if you have any questions...
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  • Profile picture of the author ForumJoiner
    That's a very interesting tip. Thank you for sharing this!

    How did you find it? Does it really make a significant difference if I use it? That is, did you rank up in the SERPs when you used it?
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  • Profile picture of the author birdfood
    Can you post the url of a site that uses this technique as an example?

    That would be useful to clarify what you mean.
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  • Profile picture of the author GeorgR.
    nice tip! will try
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    • Profile picture of the author Barbara Eyre
      A good way to use this technique is if you have a definitions or glossary page for your site. This is added benefit to your visitors in that you can further define important words and concepts that are central to your website.

      Let's say you have a website on the stock market. You can have a glossary page that gives definitions (and examples) of stocks, bonds, wall street, bull market, etc etc ... whatever terms are relevant to this subject and may need a definition for.

      Each of these words on your glossary page you wrap within a <a name=" ">word</a> tag ... where the name is a keyword representing the word.

      Then, a few times throughout your site, you link to that word on the glossary page via the <a href="# ">word</a> tag.

      It's just another way to link to other pages within your site. But instead of linking to a whole page, you are pointing your visitor to a direct spot on a page - in this case a key term.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
        Originally Posted by Barbara Eyre View Post

        A good way to use this technique is if you have a definitions or glossary page for your site. This is added benefit to your visitors in that you can further define important words and concepts that are central to your website.

        Let's say you have a website on the stock market. You can have a glossary page that gives definitions (and examples) of stocks, bonds, wall street, bull market, etc etc ... whatever terms are relevant to this subject and may need a definition for.

        Each of these words on your glossary page you wrap within a <a name=" ">word</a> tag ... where the name is a keyword representing the word.

        Then, a few times throughout your site, you link to that word on the glossary page via the <a href="# ">word</a> tag.

        It's just another way to link to other pages within your site. But instead of linking to a whole page, you are pointing your visitor to a direct spot on a page - in this case a key term.
        Excellent info Barbara... this is a great addition to my initial post...
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  • Profile picture of the author Writing Warrior
    I am totally going to implement this advice on my sites. This sounds like it would be really effective!
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  • Interesting tip, cheers.
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  • Profile picture of the author kkchoon
    You can rank for any keyword you want with any keyword Anchor Text. Just be careful when building links campaign, you don't want every links to your page is the same anchor text, search engine will think you are "CHEATING" and might start to discount their values...

    Just various of different anchor text, for example buy nintendo wii, discounted nintendo wii, nintendo wii coupon...

    You also need to put those keywords on your page, doing on page + off page optimization will great **Convince** search engine that your page is what the keywords are talking about - This is call the link profile...
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    • Profile picture of the author JV3STUDIO
      Originally Posted by kkchoon View Post

      You can rank for any keyword you want with any keyword Anchor Text. Just be careful when building links campaign, you don't want every links to your page is the same anchor text, search engine will think you are "CHEATING" and might start to discount their values...

      Just various of different anchor text, for example buy nintendo wii, discounted nintendo wii, nintendo wii coupon...

      Isn't that cheating, too? Is there any evidence you need to vary anchor text? Personally I always get beter results when I use the same keyword.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnsamuels
    the breakdown of a natural site is 60% http://, 20% anchor text and 20% 'other'

    try to keep close to that and the SE's will love you.
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    • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
      Originally Posted by samjohn View Post

      the breakdown of a natural site is 60% http://, 20% anchor text and 20% 'other'

      try to keep close to that and the SE's will love you.
      Great breakdown... the lesson to be learned is moderation is the key... don't over-use SEO techniques such as using anchor tags... but doing so in moderation leads to the SE's loving you!
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    • Profile picture of the author innocent07
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      Originally Posted by samjohn View Post

      the breakdown of a natural site is 60% http://, 20% anchor text and 20% 'other'

      try to keep close to that and the SE's will love you.
      Can you(or sombody else) please elaborate on this ratio trick in a bit more detail please?

      - perhaps give some examples
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  • Profile picture of the author iw433
    Barbara,
    Thanks, a nice addition to the "Secret".
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    • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
      It seems a few people are confused here.

      This is not anchor text.. anchor text is the text that's displayed for the link.
      Here's an example of anchor text:

      This link points to google, but this is the anchor text for it

      The poster is talking about anchor TAGS, which is a bit different.

      An anchor tag is used to link to specific parts within a web page. Click on one of those links, and your browser will scroll to that particular section (assuming the developer identified those sections in the html of the page). Giving examples of sites using this is not really feasible - it's a basic html technique used on millions of sites. There's no real way to know if a site is using it for SEO purposes, nor to see if it's working for them since the site would have those keywords in their content anyways.

      Using it for SEO is a pretty interesting idea though!
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      • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
        example of the difference:
        <a href="www.somesite.com/apage.html#ANCHOR">ANCHOR TEXT< /a>
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        • Profile picture of the author Barbara Eyre
          Originally Posted by jasonl70 View Post

          example of the difference:
          <a href="www.somesite.com/apage.html#ANCHOR">ANCHOR TEXT< /a>

          Thank you for the correction in the proper name. I didn't catch myself saying the wrong one. Yes, I was referring to anchor tags, not anchor text. But they are "cousins" if you will ... and shouldn't be over-used on a website.
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  • Profile picture of the author blase40
    Thanks for the tip... it actually seems quite logical. I'll have to test it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kurt
    While we're making technical corrections, this really isn't a "backlink" tip, it's "on the page".

    Backlinks come from other sites...
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    • Profile picture of the author Dmitry
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      While we're making technical corrections, this really isn't a "backlink" tip, it's "on the page".

      Backlinks come from other sites...
      Yup - and it's been there for ages.

      But maybe the OP means linking to your sites using URL#keyword so that the SE's will give more value to the keyword you've used in the link. If that works then you can have backlinks for various keywords without changing the actual path to the site. For example:

      http://www.fishing-guide.com#cheap-fishing-equipment
      http://www.fishing-guide.com#arizona-fishing
      http://www.fishing-guide.com#night-fishing

      etc.

      So although your domain is optimized for fishing guide, your URL still contains other search terms as well. I don't know if that has any impact (what link is being used to point to your site) but if it does have I guess you could just as well try using a '?'. Just my 2c - haven't really been into SEO recently.
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      • Profile picture of the author blase40
        Originally Posted by Dmitry View Post

        Yup - and it's been there for ages.

        But maybe the OP means linking to your sites using URL#keyword so that the SE's will give more value to the keyword you've used in the link. If that works then you can have backlinks for various keywords without changing the actual path to the site. For example:

        http://www.fishing-guide.com#cheap-fishing-equipment
        http://www.fishing-guide.com#arizona-fishing
        http://www.fishing-guide.com#night-fishing

        etc.

        So although your domain is optimized for fishing guide, your URL still contains other search terms as well. I don't know if that has any impact (what link is being used to point to your site) but if it does have I guess you could just as well try using a '?'. Just my 2c - haven't really been into SEO recently.

        I think linking from within your site to other pages on your site with the anchor tag in the URL would have some benefits in terms of SEO, and to me, it seems logical that linking this way back to your pages from other websites would also be beneficial.

        It certainly couldn't hurt, and the extra keywords in the anchor tag may hold some weight.
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  • Profile picture of the author kbratcher
    I had forgotten about that particular trick, I remember picking that up somewhere but it slipped my mind.
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  • Profile picture of the author Skribblez
    I guess it definitely helps with getting your site to rank for multiple search terms/phrases. I will keep it in mind the next time I go link building.

    Thanks!
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    • Profile picture of the author Jared Alberghini
      The key is to set your sites up so you can use 'Backlinks' that include your #anchor-keywords...

      Does this make sense?

      - Jared
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  • Profile picture of the author pmore
    I remember reading Blogging To The Bank some time ago and it suggested a technique very similar to this to get your blogs highly rated in the search engine rankings. The techniques in that eBook don't work anymore but this is much simpler and may just be effective if used in moderation.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oling
    I am not a techie guy and to me they almost mean the same. To what I do is get a site map of my site and whatever it spits out I will just copy and paste it on the other pages of the site which would link it to my other pages. Wheteht it called tags or text links, I am not sure.

    Anyways, thanks for the thechnical clarifications

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