Where do you put your anchor text links?

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What places other than your own blog do you find to add anchor text links?

Most forums won't let you put them there, don't want to put them in blog comments, most article directories don't want them in the articles. Where can I put them?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheArticlePros
    In forums, forum signatures, blog comments, various profiles, EDU blogs...I throw mine everywhere as long as the site is somewhat related to what I'm backlinking. I don't use article directories anymore, but you'd have to ask Alexa why.

    Why don't you want to put them in forums or blog comments?

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  • Profile picture of the author davidsu
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    Yes, you should put your anchor text links on .EDU blogs. You will get high significant increase in your SERP with this type of backlink.
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    • Profile picture of the author pro31lady
      You can also set up pages on Squidoo, Hub pages, blogger and many others and in that content - link back to your main site.
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    • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
      Originally Posted by davidsu View Post

      Yes, you should put your anchor text links on .EDU blogs. You will get high significant increase in your SERP with this type of backlink.
      Yeah.

      I reckon after penguin Google must look at a site, with the same anchor text all pointing from .edu sites and think "Wow, how natural, we must move this one up the serps".

      Honestly, give me a bloody break.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by davidsu View Post

      Yes, you should put your anchor text links on .EDU blogs. You will get high significant increase in your SERP with this type of backlink.
      This is nonsense, David.

      The whole thing's just an urban myth of internet marketing.

      .edu, in itself, means nothing.

      Don't assume that .edu backlinks are necessarily going to be valuable "just because they're .edu backlinks". That isn't how it works at all.

      Domain-extensions have no bearing, in themselves, either on SEO or on the value of backlinks. It's perfectly true, of course, that many .edu backlinks are very good backlinks to get, but correlation isn't causation, and it's not the fact that they're on .edu pages that, in itself, confers any "extra benefit" at all.

      The point here is simply that many (by no means all!) .edu sites are also, at least to some extent, authority sites, and that's what makes their backlinks valuable ones.

      Other .edu pages aren't "authority sites" at all.

      I have a couple of .edu blogs, myself, but sadly their backlinks are worth no more than a backlink from any of my .com, .info or any other sites, and in fact usually worth quite a bit less, because some of my main .info/.com sites are now building up quite a bit of "authority" and some of their pages are building up some higher PR's, too.

      So don't imagine that "being on a .edu site" necessarily makes a backlink better than any other sort of backlink. Sadly.

      The analogy that always springs to mind, in this context, is the belief that having a "blog" rather than a "non-blog website" is going to confer extra SEO/backlink benefit "because Google loves blogs". Again, the logic here is pretty mistaken, and in the same way: it's the attribution of causation that's at fault. The reality, in this case, is simply that "Google loves regularly updated websites", and a lot of blogs do happen to be regularly updated websites. Again, correlation is not causation.

      If you have a niche site about arthritis remedies, for example, a .edu backlink from a university's/med-school's rheumatology site is going to be potential gold-dust, while a student forum or blog which - like so many - is non-context-relevant and PR-0 will actually be no better at all than any other random non-context-relevant, PR-0 backlink such as an article directory.

      Contrary to popular belief, it isn't the "being on a .edu site" aspect of it that gives any advantage.

      Call me a skepchick, but (as with so many other things in internet marketing) if you ask people selling them, of course, you may hear a slightly different story.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matson
    Suidoo is my favorite, but I also do the EDU blogs.
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    • Profile picture of the author VHSEOMike
      You should also use wikis and social bookmarking. They allow anchor text, but after the Penguin update putting anchor text there is not a good way, instead add only backlink.
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      • Profile picture of the author davidkings
        In blogs related to mine, and i contact people who have websites in similar niches to mine.
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      • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
        Originally Posted by VHSEOMike View Post

        You should also use wikis and social bookmarking. They allow anchor text, but after the Penguin update putting anchor text there is not a good way, instead add only backlink.
        That's not actually true.

        Anchor text is fine. It now more the case that it should be planned so that you don't raise flags for over optimization. No keyword ideally should possess over 50% of the overall anchor link density.

        Matters Pertaining to Penguin
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  • Profile picture of the author GeraldNitram
    If you're going to post your links on those edu sites, make sure that you're going to post it on a page where the content is related to the whatever is on your link. The reason why there are people who suggest building links on edu blogs is because of the reputation and the authority that these sites have. Some would even suggest gov sites. Anyway, if I'm going to build my links, I'd take my mind out of that for a while and build relationships first that would make link building a lot easier in the long run.
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  • Profile picture of the author mariyajames
    Well I think whatever you all are talking about that we can get links on anchor text, but have you all forgotten about Penguin update, where how sites those put anchor text on keywords directly hit by Google and some of the website even banned.

    So I think we can use keyword diversification to anchor text instead of putting our targeted keywords in anchors.

    If get traffic on our website or blog so definitely our keywords ranking will increase.

    If anyone disagree with me then comment on, suggestions are acceptable.
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  • Profile picture of the author brians34
    Thanks all for input.
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  • Profile picture of the author fanwar
    hi jarycu
    how are u i found you pager interesting, and i am a new member at warriorforum, how can i began from? please help.
    fanwar
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  • Profile picture of the author williamk
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    You Put your anchor links whereever you Put a link. Its the best way to represent what your website stands for. In other words the keywords you are targetting.
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  • Profile picture of the author adam337
    I put them in web2.0s,forum signature and blog comment. I am getting good feedback from these.
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