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multiple keywords in anchor text

Discussion in 'Keywords' started by mdvaldosta, Oct 14, 2005.

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    Is it best to use your search term in the anchor text of links, or stuff a few keywords in? Do search engines use your link as a search phrase, or do multiple keywords help?
     
    mdvaldosta, Oct 14, 2005 IP
  2. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    Yes anchor text is very important. You want to use your main keywords in there. Say you have a dog site and you are optimizing for "dog".

    The anchor text just "dog" will help out more for the search for that keyword.

    If you use "domain name - dog" or something similiar it will help less for the term dog.

    So I would put the exact phrase you are optimizing for as the anchor text. You can stuff some more in there but will be less effective.
     
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    What do you mean by anchor text?
     
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  4. aaron_nimocks

    aaron_nimocks Im kind of a big deal Staff

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    Anchor text is the clickey part of a link. The words that are on the link.

    Anchor Text
     
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    If I'm optimizing for blue widgets and red widgets could effective anchor text be blue and red widgets i.e. is it worth trying to include multiple phrases into a single anchor text link?
     
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  6. aaron_nimocks

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    You can put them both with no problem. Just saying putting 1 alone would be more effective if you were shooting for that keyword.
     
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    I don't think keyword stuffing is a good idea. You're best off when you can slip in your keyword while still having the link make sense to a human reader.
     
    petertdavis, Oct 14, 2005 IP