Anchor text length

What if a lyrics website gets links to each song's lyrics page in a format like

<a href="lyricssite.com">The entire song...



totalling hundreds of words.</a>

Now the odds for someone searching for all those words combined is almost zero, but would individual words in the anchor text carry any weight?

 

None whatsoever.

 

It would be silly to do something like that, plus it would'nt look to good on your site.

 

it's not about looking, because you can set nice looking from css, but it is useless

 

Yeah, a total waste...unless you like to see a huge underline appear under text when hovering over the link. I think that is pretty cool, but could lead to seisures in some people.

 

Well my precise point is, when getting links to a song's particular lyrics page, would it or not help if all the words in the song are present in the anchor text?

Yeah the underline wasn't exactly my concern .

 

i would put in the anchor only the song's name, that should be enough

 

You would do much better by linking to the lyrics page using the song's title for the text link -- with lyrics in plain text on the page -- along with other on-page SEO elements such as title, heading tags, meta tags, url, etc. And still, both off-site and on-site attributes offer only the potential for positioning. Ranking in the SERPs depends on multiple elements working in harmony together.

 

Yeah but sometimes people do search for a random string of words from a song, or a particular phrase from a song.

 

If they do, your page would rank purely because it contains those words. If you have hundreds of words in the anchor text, each individual word is so dilluted it has no strength when it comes to ranking.

 

for those searches maybe including each verse in a new paragraph would help... you know that the first words from the paragraph are important..

 

Thanks for the replies, I thought this would be an innovative way to rank higher especially because of the intense competition between lyrics sites...

 

The point of anchor text is to tell what your page is about and to have multiple sites pointing to it with the same text to give you a higher relevance. Hence having the song title would do little.