Check this As an experiment I decided to target a page that used to be always high in the Serps on a 5 year old site, but recently, along with many others, had disappeared. I used the exact KWP and gave it a weighting of 3% It became Number 1 from absolutely nowhere BUT 10 others also jumped on that very same site with similar KWPs from nowhere to a variety of positions, some respectable, some less so. The 4 word keyphrase [it is what the punters search on] started with the word "house", and the pages that lifted as well, had, property, mobile homes, homes, houses in their kwps Interesting?
Certainly that is interesting. I have been looking (hoping!) for follow-through on my own sites but have not seen any so far. On one site I have moved my home page to no 1 position for keyword e.g. "widget" but my inner pages (that were already top 5) eg "Blue widget" have not budged. And yes I have Blue Widget content on my home page and a link to my blue widget page using blue widget as the anchor text. From other posts you seem to imply a need for exactness. In this case my coop ad is not pure - it is more like "Widget1 widget2 widget3" and is giving benefit for all three.
I do use only exact links - quite specific without any spread of w1, w2 etc at all In this instance it is 3 specifics and one connecting word "for" 1st word house 2nd word for 3rd word rent
The results say that common terms are excluded, but if you search house for rent and then house rent, the results are different.
Absolutely - it is the spacing that is commonally accused of being the culprit, but, I do not think so - it is the words. What is important with what is seen here is the relationship of the words to the no1 keyword and so on