Is a backlink useless without the right anchor text

Hi all,

There are many different way of building links..some people use blog commenting which is ok...but it's very hard to get away with a comment if you post your link in the body and give yourself a spammy name trying to target your keywords "Name=Hockey Cards". Therefore, you can get the link but the anchor text will have to look legit most of the time if you want your post to stay up..for eg, like someones real name Joe Shmo..therefore Joe Shmo is the anchor text for your link. Is this considered pointless after? I don't think you'll ever rank for your keywords with this type of method.. What do you think? am I totally off here?

Thanks

 

Yes the link is fairly useless if you have to use your name as the anchor text. It does still contribute your domain's overall link profile, but won't give you a boost on any specific keyword.

 

I can say that it's almost useless! When building links for your website,you must have your targeted keyword in your links, and without it, it would be almost useless, a waste of effort and time for your ranking journey.

 

that depends if your the 50% of dp'ers who think pagerank is useless or your the other 50%

personally every single link i have to my site has useless anchor text, the anchor text is the domain, no one searches for my domain....

i dont use links for anchor text i use them for pagerank as i do believe page rank does get you up higher on search engines...

maybe im wrong and i should be with the other 50% of dp'ers but i do get 6500 uniques a day from google so anchor or not cant complain.

 

edual200 has a point there.. I think it depends on how you do SEO and where you build links.. Even though you might not rank well in SERPs, when you're recieving as high traffic as edual200. But thinks it this way edual200, if you build links for several keywords and all rank top 1. This might give youl twice traffic as you are getting right now. Anywayz, proper SEO will give you more benefit rather than plain url as your keyword.


BTW, using URL as your keyword will only be effective if your website is already known. Meaning, people are searching for your website using your URL because they already been there or other people recommend them to visit...

 

Any link you get is not useless, I mean to say if it does not have any anchor text. Links drive traffic to your site and it's important. it's like advertising your URL to world wide web. It's important to get links rather thank keep waiting and thinking of it's "SEO Value" It's like other sites are recommending you.

Yes! too many links in a short period of time may be a disaster for your site, so let the natural links come their own way.

 

how many sites do you have thats pretty good

 

So I have several sites but Ill use two in this example. I have a halo wars community. Its for gamers and it is like 9 or 10 for the search halo wars community. Ive had that site up for about two weeks started seo about 4 days ago. Most my links are to the home page but not all and most my anchor involves the community keywords.

The link on dp is good it is keyword loaded but would be even better if it was on another game site. Its still prob better here keyword loaded than on a game site without the keyword anchors. Ive also written about 5 articles two of them targeted the community keywords.

To improve on this I could have built a page on the halo site that is more keyword focused on the community and linked to that page with keyword targeted anchors or linked to the articles which linked to the site. (make sense)

I have www.tshirtprintingtips.com It doesn't get any listings for keywords in any se and Ive had it alot longer, I did that site for a friend and was trying to teach him some seo but he doesn't really get on it so it sits with no visitors (Im not going to do it all) The few links it has have no anchor.

 

Any back link is not useless, all back links are worthily. but with the anchor text back link is helps to keyword ranking.

 

you might get a Page rank but i dont think that would help in the SERP.Bcoz to rank higher for keywords , the anchor texts are very important .

 

That is exactly right

 

what is your site or sites thats pretty good

 

Only 1 site... though my site has lots of pages and too many topics, when i build links there is just nothing i can think of for use of anchor so i just use the domain, home page doesnt really get traffic and no plans on ever changing that. Take for an example an article directory with 1 million pages of hundreds of topics and you build links to it i guess you could target the keywords Article Directory but if you know only 10 people search for aticle directory per month on google then why bother.

Too many pages to build links to each page but now that im using adsense and analytics together i can see what pages make the most money and maybe just build links to those.

 

yes link without your targeted keyword is useless we use seo to get traffic from SE and if you are not ranked then whats the point of using seo strategy.

 

When you take a site like digitalpoint for example, you make this thread with blah blah blah title, you go search google for blah blah blah and lots of times your thread is #1 with no external anchored links to your thread. Though i wouldent say anchor on links dont have there place in seo, id say its just a small % of everything that gets you up on top.

Some here would say your thread is #1 because dp is a so called "Authority Site" id say its because dp has high pagerank.

anyways seems im just bored this week and commenting on threads more then i should

 

Links without anchor text or with anchor text increase authority of your website. So get as many links as possible. No links are useless.

 

maybe for ranking is useless, but for hits, some help.
thanks

 

It's will still help increase your PageRank and you will rank a bit higher.
But it's much better if you have a keyword in the anchor text.

 

In my opinion it is useless for Google. But other search engines like Yahoo isn't so picky about that.

 

In a nutshell, if the backlink provides targeted traffic that you can benefit from then it is not useless. Now if we are looking at this from a strict standpoint of getting higher rankings in the SERPs (search engine result pages), than its a different story; in this case, the anchor text will not help you rank any higher for the keywords you need. However, it might help you rank higher for the "useless" keyword in the anchor text depending on the linking site's quality, relevancy, etc. Lastly, its important to note that the inbound link could help increase your pagerank. This, in turn, could make your site more attractive to link exchangers and make it easier for you to get quality links.