A lot of people criticize Aviva Directory for requiring that listings have official website names unless a featured link is purchased. While anchor text is nice, it certainly doesn't have the importance that it used to. There's a nice article about this here: http://www.internet-marketing-blog.com/2006/12/23/on-link-building/ In the modern Google world it's all about getting authority, not anchor text. I think that directory submitters should concentrate on getting links from authority directories rather than worrying about specific anchor text.
I would only agree with that for older authoritative sites, who seem to rank well with limited use of a particular anchor text keyword. For newer sites, keywords in the title are very important, until age and authority can be established. I don't obtain my views from reading articles, but doing my own tests.
My opinion on this, I don’t think on quality directories titles stuffed of keywords are a good thing, independent of regular or featured links. They can help on SEO but they will not help visitors. I think a quality directory is probably more interested in visitors than search engines.
We have a winner that is exactly my point, on a human perspective doesn’t make sense, even search engines could trigger some filter if all anchors are look-alike.
Yes AsK is correct as a Quality directory should have more visitors and it should not concentrate on getting indexed for search engines
SEs give more traffic IMO if SERPs are high. I think those who don't know much about SEO would not consider wether anchor text or what for the title. I think that a directory that gets mainly from webmasters should let them include their keywords since most of them know SEO. A directory targeting the general people from SEs can run with such a rule, but then how it could get good traffic if not high SERP in the first place?
Anchor text doesn't influence the SERPs anymore? I must have slept through that meeting and missed the followup memo
This is why its first come first serve, you get the keyword first you win. Truth is , people want strong links that will get them serps, and reality is, a normal link will not give you as much serps as a anchor text link.
Having same text as the anchor could also be viewed as spamming! It is vital to change the text occasionally.
That is one of the elements of this Latent semantic thing that ive recently been reading? or am i getting the wrong idea?
Well, don't use same anchor text. Using 4-5 or even more different anchor texts is the best. It's just another effort for SEOers to try to make a link more natural.
I would say use your keyword in title to rank in the serps but yes rotate it so you dont end up penalised. But if you are targetting some average ranking keyword for a new website chances are there that the directories listing page may outrank you in the serps In short depends on the way you proceed and experiance gives you a better idea too Amit