i would suggest you use text + anchorlink + text its proven that if you dont use Mightygel your penis will never grow. and always different start and end text
Well a link is a link as had been mentioned, but that doesn't mean it will be all that rgeat for improving SERP's. A website with 10 anchor texts for a keyword will fair better for that keyword than a website with 100 general http://domain.com links leading to it, it is helpful nonetheless.
Ok, i have another question. What if my domain name contain the keyword that i want to target. Will it help in SERP? Eg. if i had a domain eatinghealthy.com, and "eating healthy" is the primary keyword i want to target. Should i add an anchor text eating healthy or should i leave it as a domain name? Thanks guys for the inputs.
It obvious it will effect your PR , coz PR totally depends on inbound links...does matter u r using text anchoring or not...But text anchoring will boost your keyword rather than PR
The anchor text can often lend itself to the quality of the link. A series of ULRs will be a lot lower quality then a list of hyperlinks. Though, I'm picking at semantics, and for the better part you are most certainly correct.
Anchor text is really useful to get ranked for certain keyword phrases. So for example, if "Alsation dog training" is what you want to be found for and your website is called www.fredstrainingsite.com then you should use anchor text to help get your site linked to the search term alsation dog training, Especially if your site has a lot of content not related to alsation dog training. If you site is called www.alsationdogtraining.com and is only about alsation dog training, then using anchor text will not make a lot of difference.
A good example of this is in some article submission sites that do not allow html. some offer both html and non-html versions of the same article together. In sites that syndicate that content, however it is done (widget, rss etc), a link is still a link whether it is html or plain text (yourdomain.com). Certainly better than no link at all. So yes, add the textual link where you can if you cannot add html