One of Polish SEO experts published few years ago exciting AnchorPR theory. According to he, Google gives every sites Anchor PageRank, for example when many sites links to site X and this links hawe word "y" as an anchor text, so site X will have high AnchorPR for word "y", and link with anchor text "y" to other site "Z" from site X gives site "Z" more power and site "Z" will also be higher in Google ranking for word "y". My English is not well, so I don't know how to tell this theory more clearly, but I suppose you will understand it. This theory is used by Polish SEO experts in practice and according to many SEO experiments it realy works well and thanks to this knowledge they have top places in Google's rankings! Does anybody knows any American equivalent to this theory, or it is known only in Poland?
The whole xyz thing is a bit confusing, but I understand what you mean. I wouldn't say this theory is only known in Poland. Most seo's know this basic principal, but I guess few have written any theories about it. It is well known that if you gets links with your keywords as link anchor text, those links will give an extra boost to the rankings for that keyword phrase. A lot of people also know that it helps to get links from relevant webpages.
I've made a schema of sample use of this theory in practice (shown on image above). As you see, sites of SEO background collects many links with sample anchor "Apples" or "Plums" or "Pears", thanks to it 1st background site has high AnchorPR for word "Apples" etc. When this background sites has high AnchorPR, they links to main, real site, which we promote. This links are very strong and thanks to it main promoted site in short time quickly goes up in Google rankings!
If this were true, that means that if you get just one link on a PR7 site, you probably can get blessed more by google. Maybe I am missing something. And the one site you got the link on did all the work.
Let's explain it like this: The DNA (PageRank), keeps the information of the GENE (keyword). Is it easy understandable?
The idea itself is clear but what PR has to do with it? Page Rank and relevance and not quite so interrelated...
i would say this is close to how it works. you dont need to do it at site level though, individual pages work the same. if a page ranks for a term then a link from it using that term is likely a google relevant link? several of those would usually rank the target site very well.
I agree with SEO_WatchDog, the idea itself is clear and I totally support it (I've seen this concept work quite well with my sites' SEO). But what does PR have to do with it?
PageRank has nothing to do with it. It calls "Anchor PR" - this term is originaly used by Polish SEO expert, who as a first described this theory few years ago.
It works the other way arround: the main site should link to other sites, on which the anchor text "apples" (for example) should be displayed. This way the main site will go up in SERPs for that keyword (apples). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
I understand what your trying to say. I am not quite sure about the theory then. If that were the case would not all the top sites for a specific keyword have a like-PR?
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