Will our site PR improve if we submit links to a higher PR sites without an anchor text? My guess is the site will not be rank in Google SE since there's no targeted keyword (anchor text), but will it effect our PR?
PR can effect SERP but the two things are pretty much completely different. The number of incoming links can effect SERP and while anchor text certainly helps pin-point the terms for SERP ranking, they are not fully needed, as the total number of incoming links is also factored into the equation. If you are getting a long URL on a high PR page, I do find that strange, most high PR pages take the time to add in the anchor text, but even if they do not, chances are if it does have a high PR, then there is potential for traffic, especially if the surrounding text is interesting enough to humans that are reading it.
It is an interesting question but it depends what you mean by "without an anchor". If you are talking about links like: <a href="www. yourdomain .com"></a> i am not sure about if it is not against the google rules as it is practically a hidden link. But if you are talking about image links it is ok. Lets assume it is not violating any rules. Then my answer is yes, it will affect the power and the pr of your site. When your site is powerful you need less targeted links for achieving given results. But still the targeted links are the better option as they will allways bring you more benefits than the untargeted will.
I have wondered about this for a while and I think the answer is obvious. it is still a link, but will do nothing for key word targeting of your site.
Use your website name as the anchor text. If it's mydomain.com , use "mydomain" as the anchor text. It's better like this.
If you are giving explicit link then also it help you to increase traffic and PR of site but if there is anchor text it will more helpful to increase specific keyword target traffic in Google,yahoo and other search engines.But always see that link that you have given should be do fallow.Since Google do not count "no fallow" tag.
I think it's pretty obvious that a link without an anchor text in a high PR page won't do much help with your SERP. But again having a link in a high PR page will definitely brings more visitors to your site. Am i right, anyone agrees on this?
why are you so concerned with PR? you need to be more concerned with where you appear in the SERPS, and anchor text will improve this dependant on what keyword you are working on. i think if you dont concentrate on keywords in the anchor, you are building more general links which will help your rankings in general.
having a link from high PR page doesn't guarantee any or much traffic. just because its a high PR page doesn't mean its getting traffic storm. also, it depends on where your link will be place and whether its easility visible to the site visitors or not. only a fraction of the people visiting a site clicks on the external links, therefore the site you are placing your link will have to have massive amount of traffic to send a small portion to you
You'll move up in the SERPs for keyword phrases on your page that are similar to the keyword phrases on the other site's page (related content will count). It will add a little to the overall ranking for all the other keyword terms that link back to your page. What you lose is the targeting of a specific keyword term.
I would suggest you to use Anchor Texts instead of just typing in the URL. Serves the Search Engines better in terms of SEO.
Yes, i know that. The reason i'm asking this question is because some webmaster likes my articles/sites and they just referred to my site with just a plain link without an anchor text. The good part is most of the links are in their index page with high PR.
It sounds pretty interesting for.... thank you for the information. I really learned a lot in your conversation.... Can you give me more specified examples on that subject?
i will agree with all who said a link is alink, with anchor or n't, plus a link with an image which has "alt"count as anchor link