How important is it to have your keyword in the anchor text of a link? Will just having a link to your page count as much?
that has to due with 90 percent of your ranking weight by far. go here they have a article on inbound links http://www.dewittsmedia.com/articles/seo-fundamentals/seo-fundamentals-guide-1.html#4.0
It's very important that the links come from sites with RELEVANT CONTENT. While all links help, links from related sites are worth more.
20.000 links in less than a year smells like trouble to me. I'm no expert but stil..something is not right there.. __________________ BlogBelea.blogspot.com
its site wide. I got all my links naturally never bought one http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=425968&highlight=built+over+26k+links 26k links it was reading on my old domain. Friends gave them to me and just started linking to me. But yes the reason them links are reading so high is because there site wide links. Site wide links pop the links off more so basically when you read a sites back links every single link is being counted basically, so if there is 900 pages on a website that means yahoo will probably read 900 links
i have many website with 50 links and a page rank of 5 or above while i have also seen many website with 0 or 1 pr even after having more than 1000 of links
well forum links are counted by google but not that much importance given to them i can seethem in my webmaster central panel they are being counted
some few forums offer sitewide links for the top posters on the site and if that forum has 5000 pages than that is 5000 backlinks right there.
my site is a month old, and it has more than 300 back link, but i believe it should be more, since not all the link are index by search engine.
well it doesnt matter how much your site got link it does matter is how much google give importance to them if you are placing link anonymously and just wandering around along with spamming will hurt your page rank while if you carry over posting some good posts you will get some traffic through forums i am not pointing to a person special its for all.