Hello, I have a newbie question for keywords. Let us say i need to use the keyword phrase "world of warcraft guide" as my anchor link for my article. I also have another phrase "Nubun world of warcraft alliance guide" for an anchor text. The question is: if i use the second phrase ("Nubun world of warcraft alliance guide"), will that be also doing the first phrase ("world of warcraft guide")? or i need to do these separate as separate keyword phrases; like submit articles for the first phrase, and then submit other articles for the second phrase? Any help will be appreciated. My guess is that if i use "Nubun world of warcraft alliance guide" then i will also be targetting "Nubun world of warcraft guide" at the same time... but as i am new into this, i just want to make sure. Thanks in advance
so, if someone searches google for "world of warcraft guide", he will be shown my site even if all my anchor tags are "Nubun world of warcraft alliance guide" instead?
If I understand you correctly, using "Nubun world of warcraft alliance guide" as anchor text is likely to be slightly less effective than just "world of warcraft guide" because the exact phrase you are targeting is broken by the word "alliance". However, if you build enough quality links, then that difference, in my opinion, will be negligible. What's more of a challenge for you is how much competition you have for a warcraft guide related keyword.
Thanks for the reply mupha... from your answer i understand th\t the 2 phrases will not be treated the same by search engines... so if i promote "world of warcraft alliance guide" very well in anchor texts, then a user searching google for the term "world of warcraft guide" will NOT necessarily see my site in the search as i was optimizing the other phrase... in other world, if i optimize "world of warcraft alliance guide", this does not mean i am also optimizing "world of warcraft guide"... i need to optimize both to get results for both... true?
You should not create all your backlink anchor texts identically, varying the text used helps and that way you can cover both keyword options. In other words, create some links as "world of warcraft guide", some as "world of warcraft alliance guide" and some as "Nubun world of warcraft alliance guide", etc. That's how I would handle it.