I've come across a few tricks people were using which seemed to me geared towards better SEO. For example, adding a popup menu with a list of, say... "Top Ten Reasons to Buy My Widget", the form didn't do anything of course, it was just a menu with a bunch of menu items -- which of course could have been placed on the page as a list in full view, but wasn't. So it got me thinking... does this guy have some knowledge that search engines are placing some higher weight on those form menu items... same concept but with an html TEXTAREA with a bunch of "aside" information. Or maybe they were only using this to keep from cluttering the main flow of the content. I welcome comments on that technique, but the point os this thread was to ask about the value of having links on a page which simply take you to some other part of the page, the sole purpose basically being to get your keywords in another link's anchor and title. Anyone have evidence that this is of any use for SEO?
Not quite sure if I got what you mean, but if you mean links like this http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~mesh/faq.html that jump around the page. Then SEO Guy used to have his link back to the top of the page using the term 'SEO' but they are not there anymore. - Is this what you mean?
Yes, basically. Perhaps in the page's first paragraph there's a link like <a>Increasing AdSense Revenues</a> which just scrolls you down to the second paragraph. Etc...
Yeah, I know it used to work. (i did it myself for a little while, until I realised it looked stupid with my keywords). Seo Guy stopped it on his site and he used to be top for seo. I also figure that Google would use that to some degree however, I would think properly constructed seperate pages would be better anyway, you could add links, ads, title targetting etc.