Would you say anchor text is the most important part of backlinks? PLEASE ANSWER WITH A YES OR NO THEN YOUR EXPLANATION AS THIS WOULD HELP ME TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOU ANSWER THANKS.
Anchor text is extremely important if you are trying to rank well for a competitive search term it's important to use that term in your anchor text.
They say Content is the King………but in reality its NOT! Adobe.com is Rank No. 1 for the keyword “click here†yet they did not optimized nor built links for that certain keyword Why? Because there are hundreds of thousands of webmasters that uses the anchor txt “click here†to download Adobe Reader. A while back, George Bush’ website was Rank No. 1 for the keyword “miserable failureâ€, yet this phrase appears nowhere on his site, sabotage? Yes! In short, YOU NEED BACKLINKS with ANCHOR TXT as simple as that! The more backlinks with your keywords anchored to it, the higher chance of getting a better rank.
Yes... Most definitely one of the most important aspect of backlinks are the anchor texts... try directory submissions, social bookmarking etc as these help you control the text you want on your anchor text.
Yes, Anchor text is the most important part of building links ( along with building links ) Mix your anchor text up a little using slight variations so google doesn't think your spamming.
Anchor text is very important on the link building precess. Google reads link with text and getting ranked for the text
anchors are very very VERY important. Real sites have massive numbers of backlinks saying all sorts of things. Nothing looks more suspicious to a search engine than 10,000 backlinks all anchored 'www.mysite.com'
It is very important as it can tell SEs what your site is about and what terms you are trying to rank for. Of course it is one of among 200+ factors google considers when ranking websites in SERPs.
Anchor Text is not only most important but its Must, one more thing anchor text should for proper keyword otherwise its useless, useless mean you not get your targeted visitor through search engine...
Anchor text is very important as I have used it to rank high for many keywords that have basically nothing to do directly with my website/domain on a few of my websites. Of course the links must have some PR juice that you are linking from but like others said above Adobe ranks #1 for click here or did for awhile and they are not optimized at all it is just from all of there anchor text links on their own websites and others linking to the website.
Using keywords as anchor texts is a well known fact and there is not a single reply that say otherwise. Hope there is no confusion now in the mind of the OP... Regards, RightMan
No, the link itself probably is more important than the anchor text. BUT, it defintely would be second in my opinion from an SEO persepective. You can't go wrong with having the link and it might provide some traffic regardless of what the anchor text is. But, as others have already mentioned, if you don't have good anchor text on it, you will not be ranking for the keywords you are hoping to rank for.
The classic example of google bombing... exploiting the methods used by the search engines to link keywords to sites... to me, anchor text is just as important as the URL... would you want your site under a rubbish key word?
I didn't pay much attention to anchor text until recently. When I do backlink searches and see my Anchor text you can best believe when a human searches if your anchor text matches their keywords you'll come up in their search results.