Backlink without anchor

Hello,

Is a backlink without an anchor text useless (for example, just www.mydomain.com). Does this add to serps or help me in any way?

Thanks.

 

You have to be a little more specific, the anchor text is important but is just one factor in the SERPS. In my experience backlinks (from authority sites) with the appropriate anchor will help with SERPS, those without any anchor or a 'general anchor text' (such as the domain url itself) will still help somewhat, but not as much.

For example, if you are trying to rank for 'Fishing Rods,' having a link pointing to your site using that anchor text will be much better than a link pointing to your site using 'www.jimsfishingshop.com.'

If you are using images for inbound links it is useful to use the 'alt' attribute in place of your anchor text, also the 'title' of the href can help, when the anchor link is absent.

 

Ya, it is best if you can have your keyword anchor link for your website. With your website keyword in the anchor links (either in your domain name or in anchor text), you will have a more quality backlinks compared to backlinks with just a http link without any domain name keyword or anchor text keyword.

 

it would still be counted even if its just a link.

 

Backlink without href or anchor text is not totally useless since you have your website here. But i guess showing the real name of website is not a backlink anymore.

 

Backlink without anchor just give you backlink and not help you for SERps, i think.. CMIIW.

 

Anchor Text is very important for your SERPS. But without also not really hurting..

 

It'd be counted as a backlink ut if you use an anchor text it'll help you building up of your keywords

 

Well it's still a backlink...better than nothing I'd say

 

Okay thanks. I was wondering because some blogs remove your comment if your name is used as the anchor text. So I was wondering what use would it be just to solely have your link without an anchor text in the blog comment.

 

In-bound links are still links, if you are trying to acquire links through blog comments use an actual Persons name not a keyword phrase, keyword phrases are deemed spammy when used for blog comments.

 

Its not totally useless. It is still useful somehow. The only difference is you put the specific URL of your website rather posting the keyword with your website as hyperlink.

 

Deemed spammy by Google? I thought that this was a technique many people used to acquire backlinks and gain serps?

 

anything is better than nothing.

 

Would hidden links are counted for google?

 

The trouble with all of this is that a lot of misinformation is always spread around by those who think they know more than they actually do.

You have to remember that Google's ranking algorithm contains a great many thing (some of which only Google themselves know about) and the concept of 100% anchor driven backlinks is only one of them. Important though it might be, you still have to remember that it is only one of about 200 factors.

First of all. a link is a link as long as it is active and can help lead either traffic or bots back to your site or page. Yes it would be ideal if the anchor wording on that link relates to your search phrase but that is not everything. A lot of people forget about a factor that is equally important in some cases and that is the IPspread of inbound links. Sometimes links coming in to a site that are only in url form as opposed to anchor driven are from better quality IP's i.e totally separate A Class instead of just slightly different C Class from the same web host etc.

 

It's much better if you have an anchor link.

 

no it is not useless
it will be counted as a backlink

 

No actually it's good to combine everything, if you build hundreds of links with the same anchor text, doesn't look natural and liked it or not you might get penalized. Then what? Waste of time in the first place..

So, build a good proportion of them with your primary keyword, then secondary, then something completely else but somehow logical (such as the site's address or brand name itself used as an anchor text).

Combine do-follow and no-follows too and you're good to go.

Let's say you want to rank for "cheap massage oil" and you have that phrase within your page title, domain name etc. (as someone said, anchor text is only one factor, there's many more like those mentioned right now) it would be great to use it as an anchor text too, but with highest quality links only and even then don't over do it.

Use secondary keywords and other combinations. If you use one anchor text, do-follow links only (it's 2010 now, no-follows are everywhere and not hard to get so why risk it?) I think you'll get penalized way before you rank for the keyword itself (let's say it's a moderate competition one, not counting extremely small sized volumes of queries).

Whatever you do, make it look natural. Building links is a natural process, you can and you have the right to leave your link everywhere you want to, but make it look natural and avoid the penalties. Plus if you follow that rule, you'll end up getting way more links because you have a complex pattern you're following and as long as you're sticking with it, google won't penalize you no matter what amount of links you build (of course it's not good to build thousands of them daily so be realistic).