Question for the Experts re: Anchor text

Hey, I had a question about anchor text. It's better when the anchor text is a short phrase right?

When someone links to you with a long string, let's say like 10 words, do each of those 10 words get relevancy, (100% link juice each) or does it split up evenly to each of the 10 (10% link juice each)

Thanks and sorry if the question isn't phrased that well.

 

The longer the anchor text the less relevance is passed to each term. The exact anchor text is what gets the most weight though. It's doubtful many people would search for a keyterm more than 2 or 3 words long in most cases.

 

its not much either way to be honest, unless you just bought a pr9 link. its best to use vairations of anchor text.

 

Hey, Try focusing on the anchor texts that people use when they are making some searches queries on the search engines.

 

Thank you for the helpful advice!

 

If you whant to rank for : comic books get backlinks with comic books
Geting anchor text with best comic book will not help much ranking for comic book

Regards

 

You shouldn't use exactly the same anchor text on all the links because this looks artificial, and also because searchers will sometimes use variations of the main phrase in their searches.

So you should use your main term in your anchor text most of the time, but sometimes use variations too.

 

It depends! If you place it on the sig make short, if in directory make long and be sure you target all your keywords.

 

Here is what I will do:

When I am getting a link from a high quality site, I will use the exact anchor text I want to rank for (e.g. ipod). I will then use the variance of the main kw if the link is placed on directory, article directory or other not so relevant site (e.g. buy cheap ipod).

Google is not only using LSI to determine the content of your page, but also the anchor text you are using as well. It would be more natural to include some variance to your main kw.

 

I think you are wrong on this one....these are related phrases.... "best comic book" is also relevant to "comic book"

I may be wrong but you are proposing a site gets all its anchor text with the same phrase....this looks very unnatural and is easily detected...

 

Exactly ! It's certainly not good to use 10 word sentences as anchor text only, even if they contain the keywords...but some variations are the key to success. If you use one term only, you are out of the game quickly.

 

Please stop perpetuating this myth.

There are already a number of unscrupulous vendors of so called LSI optimizing products and services making money from naive users. Don't lend them support by perpetuating the myth.

- Michael

 

I agree also that it's not good to use 10 words in anchor text better if you would use 3-4 words anchor text with different variations.

 

yes, agreed with this. try to focus at least max words about 2 or 3 only.

 

you are not wrong, ask any seo who has been doing his job for the last 5 years, he will tell you get links with variated anchors. getting links using only your optimal anchor will rise some red flags and may not help your rankings. also, when the "Meta title" and content of the page where you get the link is exactly relevant to your website, then even a link with the anchor : "click here" or "homepage" will be perfect.