Anchor Text.

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by bradchawla, Mar 18, 2009.

  1. #1
    In your own opinion will it make a difference whether the anchor text for a keyword has a capital letter at the beginning of each word or lower case?
     
    bradchawla, Mar 18, 2009 IP
  2. david001

    david001 Banned

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    #2
    No issues.. Anchors, keywords are not case sensitive..
     
    david001, Mar 18, 2009 IP
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    #3
    It won't make any difference, both are same.
     
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    #4
    Yep, it doesn't matter.
    Search Google with(out) 1st letter being capitalized
    ;-)
     
    ShivaS, Mar 18, 2009 IP
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    #5
    it does not matter whether there is keyword in lower case, upper case or title case, b'coz case sensitivity does not affect SERPs.
     
    seodilip, Mar 18, 2009 IP
  6. shailendra

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    what a stupid thing!!! Google do no differentiate the results on the basis of case. but i do display different results for singular and plurals
     
    shailendra, Mar 19, 2009 IP
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    #7
    Keywords are not Case-Sensitive and so makes no difference if written as Keyword, keYWOrd, keyword or KeyWorD.
     
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    #8
    It doesn't matter that your keyword is in capital letter or lower letter...
     
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    Just for display...first letter of each word should be in capital letter.
     
    vl09, Mar 19, 2009 IP
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    display first letter to be capital, that will look good. no issues with link building as such
     
    shabbirprince, Mar 19, 2009 IP
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    most search engines pay not attention to case at the present time
     
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    As contentboss said, it 'can' make a difference with some search engines. Most search engine ranking algorithms are case insensitive. They typically normalize the link text to lower case and replace all punctuation characters with a space before considering them in the algo.

    However, most search engines are built on platforms that ARE case sensitive. So one part of the system may be case sensitive while other parts of the same search engine might be case insensitive. It depends on their developers.

    I could see search engines (especially Google) one day being case sensitive on purpose for certain ambiguous keywords... They could use the case of certain keywords as a signal to determine the context in which it is used... For example, if a word can be used both as a Proper Noun (person's name) and a regular noun to mean something totally different, Google might want to show different results depending on the case.

    For example, "John" is a person's name... "john" can also be used to mean a toilet in the US. One day Google's ranking algorithm might be sophisticated enough to attempt to discern the difference not only when used in the search phrase, but also when used in the link text. Should such time come, they might return results where the link text of most of the inbound links and on page occurences were "john" when you search for "john" (lower case) versus those pages where "John" was used as the link text. But I doubt they are there yet... Although I'd be willing to bet there are a few PhDs there working away at stuff like this. They already do stuff similar to this by looking at search phrases to determine context of ambiguous words and return the best results for that context.

    The best way to tell is to simply go to the search engine in question and search for the word in lowercase and then search again in mixed case or uppercase. Do you get the same results? If so then it is likely case insensitive. If you get drastically different results then it likely IS case sensitive. But these tend to be the lesser known, less sophistocated engines.
     
    Canonical, Mar 19, 2009 IP
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    #13
    great points contentboss and canonical
     
    agbattery, Mar 19, 2009 IP
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    #14
    It will not make a difference in your ranking
     
    yungfranchise, Mar 19, 2009 IP
  15. JessieJames27

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    There is no effect in search results :) But making the first letter capital will make it professional look.
     
    JessieJames27, Mar 19, 2009 IP
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    #16
    i trust that it makes no different
     
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    #17
    no issues you can write the way you have said. it wont be affacted in google search.
     
    akki123, Mar 19, 2009 IP
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    #18
    It doesn't makes any difference. Keywords are not case sensitive
     
    pranavkash, Mar 19, 2009 IP