Thread: Are anchor texts natural?

Originally Posted by vij

If I was google and I see a site with 100% anchor texted links(even if they have different anchors) I wouldn't be too happy about it. It may be a good idea to throw around naked links too.

Nothing on the web is 100% natural. If Google gave more value to "naked links", it would be detected. It would be long before people were selling "naked link" e-books etc

well i think most people use "click here" for anchor text,but does it really affect SEO ?

Originally Posted by xxtoni

well i think most people use "click here" for anchor text,but does it really affect SEO ?

The sites ranking for "click here" generally have a massive amount of inbound links with "click here" in the anchor text. So it does effect SEO. But there isn't much SEO benefit other than the link is passing some juice.

Originally Posted by bogart

The sites ranking for "click here" generally have a massive amount of inbound links with "click here" in the anchor text. So it does effect SEO. But there isn't much SEO benefit other than the link is passing some juice.

Yes,well you know what they say "every bit counts"

Originally Posted by xxtoni

Yes,well you know what they say "every bit counts"

The adobe reader page is #1 for "click here" and is PR10. It does appear that "every bit counts".

[ame=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&rlz=1R2GGLL_enUS328&q=click+ here&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai]click here - Google Search[/ame]=

Hi,

Originally Posted by vij

There is so much talk about anchor texts. But are anchor texts all that natural. Don't most non-webmaster guys naturally link to the url without anchor text ?

Yes, when I started out all I did was link to the url. It is because of forums like this that I am not making that mistake any more.

Originally Posted by vij

Don't you think anchor texts are unnatural considering many people(non seo guys) dont even know how to make anchor texts.

NO, what is unnatural is starving!!! Each day we must learn and improve our sites if we don't all we have is the same traffic that we had when we started on day one. The friends we told "I have a site online" to bad only half of them take the time to show up.

Sami

Originally Posted by Sami4u

Hi,
Yes, when I started out all I did was link to the url. It is because of forums like this that I am not making that mistake any more

Anchor text is much more useful for the end user compared to a url as the link text. This is especially true when the links are in content. Back in the days of GeoCities, this was the case.

What if the anchor text isn't within the < ahref=""> tag??

Originally Posted by RamCity

What if the anchor text isn't within the < ahref=""> tag??

If anchor is not within <a></a> then it is not an anchor.