Does Anchor Text within Content Have More Value than Regular Text?

Lets say that I have an article on cats:


Cats are great furry creatures. They sleep a lot and require little work.
Sometimes they shed a bit of hair, and that is annoying. But for the
most part, cats are great creatures. Their primary diet requires fish and other various forms of cat food.


NOW -- if a user searched for "fish cat food", the above content would pop up because FISH and CAT FOOD are near each other.

MY QUESTION: What if FISH and/or CAT FOOD were ANCHOR text. Would this benefit or hinder this paragraph?

 

Many people believe that in-content links count for more than links in navigation menus and footers. Search engines also give more weight to link text than to regular text. So yes this would help.

 

I believe it will have more value than just regular link . Also , it has to be relevant.

 

But if I have an anchor link within context, its basically saying that the info is ON another page, this making it LESS relevant..

 

I do this type of keyword-rich internal linking fairly extensively on all my pages. Everything I have read and heard suggests that it will benefit both the page on which the links occur and the page(s) to which the links are pointed. Only the algorithm engineers know for sure, but the consensus of SEO opinion seems to be that this is good practice.

 

yep thats what i do too now..
it totally seems that if i put a footer link even on several hunderd pages of the same domain it has less effect then if i did a blog post..

 

For me, YES. Text links within a content/article weights more than regular text link in sidebar.

 

yes. definitely it will help to you. for using your keyword in anchor text.

 

Yes definitely its very simple logic. As google is giving more importance to anchor text with in content rather than regular links because regular link may or may not be relevant to that content but anchor text is similar to that content which shows more chances of relevance.

 

even if the keyword are separate it is ok as long as it is in the same page r articles.

 

I've heard the anchor will matter more in the middle of an article, than at the end, or in it's last paragraph. I think this is untrue. Just don't put it dead last.