If I write an article for my blog that's linked to my website and link some anchor text to my website will this increase the SEO and SERPs of the website? Or am I best on other blogs that have a relevance to my niche?
It certainly could help improve your rankings. Links from both types of blogs will do, but they'll obviously look more natural when coming from those in your niche.
yes your website ranking will also increase as it is also linked in someway or the other. write article which has something uniqiue to offer or inform........
It will help you in SERP for the targeted keyword (hyperlinked URL). It is better if it is in your niche.
I tink the text or contextual article would help alot, but if someone else took a copy of your article and repplubished with linkback credit, it's going to be more powerful.
Contextual links = helpful for SEO. I can't think of an instance where they would not be. One nice advantage of in-text links from your pages pointing to your other pages is this: it gives you the ability to use the precise anchor text you want, in order to tell the search engines what the linked-to page is about. Rather than letting the search engines try to figure out the themes of your pages, you yourself are informing them of the exact nature of their content by the anchor text you choose for the links.
If the blog 'attached' to your site is http://blog.yourURL(dot)com/ or is the same IP, then contextual linkage will help in the same that proper site interlinking does. In this instance, getting contextual anchored links from other blogs in the same niche that have similar trust and PR of your blog will actually work much better for SERPs.
The advantage of having a link with anchor on blogs related to your niche is that often they are qualitative. But of course recommend that the construction of links even if it is not specific to your niche.
Search engines are always on the lookout for gamed links, when a link is contextual it looks more relevant and natural. Blogroll links are great, but they are not contextual in the slightest.