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lemon
08-17-2003, 09:18 AM
Was wondering ...

If I was selling lemon juice .. and I wanted to be highly ranked for the keyword "lemon juice". :D

Which of the following anchor text would get me highly ranked for the Google word "lemon juice"?

1. lemon juice

2. lemon juice drink

3. cheap lemon juice drink

Would options 2 and 3 be as good as number 1?

:confused:
Chris
08-17-2003, 10:13 AM
No.

Its all percentages. Having 100% of your target keywords in your anchor text is bettern than having 66% or 50%.
lemon
08-17-2003, 07:03 PM
But if I exchange links using the anchor text "lemon juice", would it seem like spam or obvious seo, raising the eyebrows at google or jealousy of competitors (they then file spam report)?

Say if my site is lemons-cafe.com
and I used "Lemon Juice" as the anchor text ...
Chris
08-17-2003, 08:13 PM
If someone else links to you using "Lemon Juice" its not your fault.

Or you could just have them use "Lemon Cafe - Lemon Juice" which isn't perfect but its better than nothing.

Of course if you named your site using your keywords you'd avoid this quandry altogether.
lemon
08-18-2003, 12:19 AM
Is it true that only incoming links with PR4 and above are useful?
Mike
08-26-2003, 09:41 AM
How about if you put on your page...

"KEYWORD Home"

So if you put your keyword(s) then home, should it get your ranking up a little if you do it on every page?
Kings
08-26-2003, 10:20 AM
Originally posted by lemon
Is it true that only incoming links with PR4 and above are useful?
AFAIK, all incoming links are useful (except PR0) but only incoming links with PR4 are shown on google (when searching for link: url.

I might be wrong though. I'm sure Chris will be able to either confirm or correct this ;)
Chris
08-26-2003, 10:56 AM
Kings is correct :)
Mike
10-24-2003, 02:24 PM
Say if you were doing a site on loan comparisons - and named your site realgoodloanplans.com. Then to link to your homepage you used "loan comparisons" as the anchor text, would it be considered as seo spam?
Chris
10-24-2003, 02:25 PM
No, its not deceptive, its not misleading, and you're showing the same link to people that you show to SEs.
Mike
10-24-2003, 02:31 PM
So search engines don't care what anchor text you have for any links? Correct?

Thanks,
Mike
Chris
10-24-2003, 02:36 PM
Oh they care, anchor text is important.

They don't care what the text is, so long as it isn't deceptive or invisible or something like that.
Mike
10-24-2003, 02:41 PM
Ah...They don't mind about the actual text though. Just the colour etc...

Thanks for your help Chris,
Mike
Chris
10-24-2003, 03:28 PM
They do mind the text, in extreme circumstances.

<a href = "example.com">.</a>

They don't like that since it doesn't look like a real link.
michael_gersitz
10-27-2003, 01:15 PM
Would it allow that to show up as a backlink?

Or just hurt the page it is on.

(having a period as a link)
Chris
10-27-2003, 01:26 PM
The link would show up, until someone reports it and Google checks it out. In which case they'd likely penalize the site the link is on.