Anchor Text Question

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by ageofz, Jul 8, 2008.

  1. #1
    I have a question regarding the anchor text that links to your site. Does it matter if there is a space in it? For instance, would "Pest Control Information" and "PestControlInformation" both help you equally for ranking for pest control information? Do search engines care about a space when considering anchor texts?
     
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    danger9918 Well-Known Member

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    The space does make a difference, proof is that searching for each keyword (with space and without) gives you different search results
     
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  3. ageofz

    ageofz Peon

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    Ok, so does it help in anyway? For example, I have domain names rank and they do not have spaces, yet my anchor text will suggest a different keyword. Also, some sites link to others using http://domainname.com and that helps them rank for the "domain name" and not just "domainname". Surely it must still help right?

     
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    xander1083 Banned

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    ya space makes a different for keyword ranking. three word keyword is better with space rather than keyword with one space.
     
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    RULE Well-Known Member

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    Actually it should be "Pest Control Information" with spaces is much better.

    But u can do some experiments here,,,,,,,,
    Make it "Control Pest Information" and when u search for this keyword: 558,000 results for Control Pest Information and for Pest Control Information 387,000

    So u can see the difference,,,,,,,,
    Well one more experiment but i don't recommend however u can still try,,,,,,

    If u combine PestControl Information then u get results : 9,270,000 for PestControl Information
    This u can use in paragraphs,,,,,,,

    Good luck,,,,,,,,
     
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  6. mascot

    mascot Active Member

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    Search engines treat different combinations differently.

    Search Engine Optimization is not equal to Optimization Search Engines.

    Similarly it can make a huge difference if you do not have spaces between the anchor text keywords.
     
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    Wow thanks never knew that!
     
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    lightlysalted Active Member

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    Personally I would use spaces as it looks better. Search engines can differentiate between spaces and non spaces, but go for the anchor text that is most closely associated with the search queries you visitors might make in a search engine and think how you might search for it. I don't know many people who would write out "PestControlInformation" more likely to write it as Pest Control Information
     
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    RULE Well-Known Member

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    It depends on the keywords that u target. It does matter and each key differs,,,,,
    For example for the keyword : "Quick Order"

    214,000,000 for Order quick
    37,800,000 for Quick order

    So there it is,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    It depends,,,,,,,,,

    Well mascot ur blog is gr8,,,,,,,
     
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  10. Regine

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    SE will not read the search term without space the same as with space
    it will read it as one word and that is not good
    in the first place, why would let your anchor text not have spaces?
     
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    Well there are a few really high PR news pages that let you comment with dofollow links, but it uses a spam bot to filter people who are trying to spam. For example, it won't let me use my name as "Pest Control" but it will let me do "PestControl" So I was trying to see if that would help my ranking at all. Not like I was comment spamming with irrelevant posts, but considering that the site is so big, anything that goes through that bot won't get posted. If it seems useless I'll just have to try to find another way i suppose.
     
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