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irrelevant anchor text

by fir3d
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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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  • Profile picture of the author josspam
    uhmm I don't think so... you really need the keyword.

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  • Profile picture of the author thmgoodw
    Originally Posted by fir3d View Post

    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author getsmartt
    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
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  • Profile picture of the author warrich
    always use competitive keyword
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  • Profile picture of the author webdevpro
    Irrelevancy (in anchor text) may lead to high bounce rate and is not a recommended practice.
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    • Profile picture of the author dburk
      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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    • Profile picture of the author jazbo
      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.






      Originally Posted by webdevpro View Post

      Irrelevancy (in anchor text) may lead to high bounce rate and is not a recommended practice.
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  • Profile picture of the author jasonmorgan
    Here is the the correct answer.

    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.
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  • Profile picture of the author flash22
    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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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    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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