So you get to put your link on your partner sites and obviously you put you anchor text there too. Now, if your site is about flowers in the backlink anchor text you may write "flowers". What if you write "most expensive flowers", does that give you a backlink comination of: most expensive expensive flowers most flowers etc etc or just most expensive flowers ?
I've never thought of that before and would be interested to know the answer too. I have been using my <forum name> + <major keyword> as anchor text with my forum link. I hope I've not been wasting my time.
Yes it does. The most weight will be given to the 3 word phrase, but it will also help you rank for most expensive, expensive flowers, most flowers, It is important to vary your anchor text so you could also try something like fast uk flowers compare cheap flowers online then think of all the possible combinations you could start ranking for I always use tactics like this to improve the longtail of my searches.
The strongest effect will be for the whole phrase, then for the components of the phrase, which will be very low.
experience. It is easy to test it if you want. I have had situations where if it was the above example I have ranked for the hybrid of the 2, so I have had the anchor text fast uk flowers affordable flowers online and have ranked well for combinations of the two so i could be ranking well for affordable uk flowers even though I had no anchor text with that exact term.
Yeh its good to start off with longtail phrases like that and then move on to shorter ones after you get them high up in the serps. I always start like that and you soon notice that you will rank a little higher for your smaller terms like "flowers" then work on links with just flowers in the backlink and you'll own it all....
different combination of your targeted keywords really helps you may get credit on both of your targeted keywords that you use as your anchor text.