External Link Setup Question

I hear that it is good to have less then 50% of the external links to your site be your keyword phrase. If every one of my forum posts on a particular forum is in the following format:

Visit our website http://www.mywebsite.com for my keyword

Where both the URL and Keyword link to my home page, and this is hypothetically the only form of external link I have, will 50% of the links to my site be picked up as the keyword? Or does google ignore the format of links that are the full URL title.

 

In my opinion you should put your keyword as your anchor text every time. Now you may want to change the anchor text up a little bit, to make it look more natural to the SEs. For example use your main keyword 75% of the time and a secondary keyword the rest of the time.

 

So don't list the URL at all?

 

Zan, I think he's saying that you would include the URL in the link like this:

<a href="http://www.blahblahblahsite.com">Chosen Keyword</a>

where "Chosen Keyword" is the anchor. Right?

 

Here's my thought:

If your domain is already keyword rich. then linking back to your site by using the URL as anchor text is already effective. At least this commonly happens when other article writer link back to your site.

However if you are the one creating a link back to your site, then why should you use the URL as anchor text. Just make use of the keyword you want as the anchor text for your own advantage

 

That I understand. The question is: If I include the URL as well, will it affect the external link anchor text %.

So if I write: Visit our website [pre]http://www.mywebsite.com[/pre] for my keyword

Will both the website URL and "my keyword" count as external links when google is checking to see if "my keyword" makes up less then 50% of the external links to my site?

 

I agree that you should drop the url link. Just use the keyword rich link. The extra url link will not help you. I don't think it would change your link anchor text percentages. Instead link to an internal page with that second link, with the target keywords for that page.

Don't worry too much about staying under 50% for a specific link anchor text. You can probably get away with 60% or more. Just get most of your important links using your main target keyword phrase. Then make a point of also getting lots of links that target overlapping and related keywords. Ideally you would have several secondary target keywords for each page.

 

When I am writing an authour bio resource box for ezinearticles or something like that, here is what I do.

I use two of my keywords as anchor text for my two links. One to the home page (usually my main keyword) and the other to an internal page.

I sometimes also put in the URL of my site in the resource, but I DO NOT make it an active link.

Something like:

Dr. Dolittle is an expert on dog toys, and he owns the website DogToys123xyz.com. If you are interested in learning more about pet toys and puppy toys, please visit the site.

This is just a crappy example but I think you get the idea. Link your main keyword "dog toys" to your home page and the secondary keyword "puppy toys" to an internal page.

This is how I do my linking, until I learn a better way