Sorry but new to SEO but getting there slowly. Been following some things in this forum and just like to ask some things so I'm sure I understand. Is Anchor Text of Links when you use words for your link like in my sig here? ie it displays text that you click on to go tomy www page?
Anchor text to be effective must describe what your site is all about. These words will help your ranking with search engines when users in the internet search for them and if your site has acquired good ranking with SEs, your site will rank well for the anchor texts you used.
You are correct. The "link text" is the word(s) that is hyperlinked (clickable... typically underlined). Google and the other engines use the text that is hyperlinked as a strong clue as to what the page being pointed to is all about. So if you have a page on your site about car maintenance and link to it with something like, "To find out more about car maintenance, click here." you're telling the search engines that example.com/car-maintenance is about "click here". It does very, very little towards helping you to rank for "car maintenance". Basically it just passes example.com/car-maintenance a miniscule amount of page rank or link juice (which really has VERY little affect on rankings), but doesn't help you rank for a specific keyword phrase. On the other hand, if you link to example.com/car-maintenance/ from another page with something like, "Learn more about car maintenance." you are telling the search engines that your page is about "car maintenance" so not only does it pass your page a little link juice, but it also help you rank for the keyword phrase "car maintenance" and other variations of that phrase. So to be a little more correct, instead of: I would say:
Yes, you are right. The text that refers to your website is called: - Anchored link Also can be referred as - Hyperlinked
You are right! Anchor text is the text that appears between the anchor tags in HTML. LIke here <a href="destination page.html">ANCHOR TEXT</A> If you have keywords in your anchor text, the better it is for your ranking purposes.
Thanks everyone. Would you do this in your own site ie internal links and would they help your ranking?
Yeah, it can do. For example, I make my home link a "nofollow" link, as home aint what is at the end of that link, its my website which aing called "home" or about "home" etc etc. Internal linking does help a hell of alot, well worth implimenting, and using your keywords wisely!
Sorry could you explain a bit more about your quote "I make my home link a "nofollow" link" how do you do this and what benifit it has.
I use hyperlinik for affiliate marketing purpose. If search engines want to penalize that, then me and many bloggers will be boiling in hot soup. Anyway, I use "nofollow" tag so that link juice wont pass to those sites.
Scheng-Careful with that. There have been some interesting studies regarding no-follow, in fact it may, or may not exist anymore with G.
Nofollow is definitely obeyed by Google. It prevents the destination page from being credited with another inbound link. It stops your page from passing the destination URL for the affiliate link any page rank/link juice and it won't get credit for the link text either. Lots of people say that Google counts nofollow links simply because they often appear in the output of the LINK: operator as well as in the inbound links shown in Google's Webmaster Tools. But Google places them there so that you DON'T know which pages are being counted. They also show inbound links from pages known to be under penalty, and those are not counted as well. And it is very much advised that IF you have affiliate links on your site pointing to another site that is selling something, that you rel="nofollow" those affiliate links for two reasons: 1) Placing the rel="nofollow" on affiliate links cannot hurt your site, and "might" save your URL where the affiliate link exists from being penalized should your site be manually reviewed by a Googler and the affiliate link somehow be interpretted as a paid link. AND 2) Why should you help the owner of the affiliate program (the destination URL of the affiliate link) to rank by giving it credit for another followed inbound link - passing it link juice and giving it credit for the link text of your outbound affiliate link? You want YOUR URL where the affiliate link is located to outrank the destination URL for the affiliate link.
You should make your own affiliate program because a lot of people will link to your site. You pay nothing for these people to help promote your product. You only receive less money per sale because you have to give away commissions, but at least you don't have to hire SEO companies and pay thousands of dollars for linkbuilding.