Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Why Anchor Text is Important

What is Anchor Text?
Anchor text is the part of the hyperlink that seen by a visitor on a website (the clickable text).  For this example, the html code will be www.website.com and the anchor text will look like anchor text.

So this html code:

<a href="http://www.website.com">anchor text</a>

Will be seen as anchor text.


What Anchor Text Does

Google and other search engines count each link as a vote for the linked to website by the linked from site. Looking at all components of a link from a website will provide better insight about the vote being cast. Google basically uses anchor text as a vote for a webpage, but what is the vote for? Anchor text represent the actual vote. You’re saying that you’re voting for the site because the site embodies (what you put in your anchor text).

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