Comments on: Why it’s good to mix your incoming link anchor text?

By: Jon Roberts

Jon Roberts — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:36:23 +0000

Bearing in mind the importance of anchor text, how does this fit into a typical page of links or a links database? For instance should the link in a links table/page/database be textual rather than the actual url and also what about the surrounding text?

By: Lamba

Lamba — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:21:58 +0000

Interesting post! Mixing the text has always been fruitful for several campaigns. Anchor text is very important and deserves some thought.

By: Ollie Phillips

Ollie Phillips — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:14:04 +0000

I often wonder about the genius behind Googles semantic techniques it sounds almost too good, not to mention too complex, to be true.

I’m glad I found your post - albeit a bit late!

Thanks

By: Mart

Mart — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:18:20 +0000

I still think Google has a long way to go - far too many directory sites in results…

By: Steve Graham

Steve Graham — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:18:25 +0000

How does this equate with a URL that contains the same keywords? The reason I ask is I have a GET item like index.php?webdesign=services Does google recognise these?

By: Jason Green

Jason Green — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:52:08 +0000

Great point!

Google’s semantic techniques are getting more and more complex, but the harder SEO gets, the better quality results google will bring up!

By: Marc Crouch

Marc Crouch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:18:13 +0000

A valid point. I read a recent article on Google’s own blog about semantic techniques, so working on related words and phrases will become increasingly important.

Good article.

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:35:27 +0000

From what I’ve experienced its normally a bad idea to have anchor text thats the same only when its long. For example no harm comes (though no good either) you have a lot of links like: “here” or “click here”.

As thats one of the major ways people create links.

However, when you’ve got lots of identical: “no.1 web design” then it looks dodgy and so you get penalised.

By: Damien

Damien — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:16:04 +0000

In reply to Jasons comment. Getting links can be hard if you have to ask for them but you could try writing an article that would be interesting for your clients and then posting it on sites like e-zinearticles.com. Make sure you include your URL in the article and then when anyone ever uses the article as content in their newlsetter or on their site, you get a backlink!

Hope this helps

By: jason

jason — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:22:14 +0000

Dear fellow SEO masters, i have just lanched a new Website and would like to generate as many links as i possibly can, i have tried all on page optimisation techniques however struggle to get anywhere with Google, the web address is web-shop-online.co.uk , any help would be much appreciated

regards Jason

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:46:55 +0000

Well I am just trying to get my head around SEO so tips like this are great!

Cheers
Chris

By: KDye Vertical Leap

KDye Vertical Leap — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:39:09 +0000

Hmm, the anti-googlebomb algorithm also takes into account the text on the page, so most customer sites don’t have this issue because their keywords are repeated on the site. For instance, the White House page recently reappeared for “miserable failure” because they happened to put the word failure somewhere on the page in another context.

There is a phrase based penalty (that might or might not be the same as the anti-googlebomb) that affects sites that have link built too much on the same phrase, however it does have to be a much higher percentage than any other phrase, so provided you are mixing them up (or have a very robust backlink profile anyway) then you won’t have this problem.

By: Jon Roberts

Jon Roberts — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:24:08 +0000

Very interesting comments, I would love to find out how Google actually work out attempts to manipulate search results.

By: David Coles

David Coles — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 00:04:32 +0000

does Google’s algorithm stop all kinds of ‘google bombing’ or woulld it just affect mass ‘google bombing’? The majority of my customers inbound links have similar keywords in their alt text and it would be a big job to come up with and change to new keywords.

By: James

James — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:17:38 +0000

Thanks for that tip, its amazing how many different things google has to deal with to show good search results, which I suppose is why its the most popular search engine!

regards,

James

By: Julian Perera

Julian Perera — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:27:04 +0000

Hamlet ,

A very interesting post .I think this makes real sense ! Also couldn’t agree more with Aaron.

Keep up the good work ! great post !

Regards

Julian

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:06:18 +0000

Aaron,

Thanks for your comment. You are absolutely right. Danny Sullivan reported it at Search Engine Land.

They recently defused “the greatest living American” bomb as well.

By: Aaron Cook

Aaron Cook — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 07:51:48 +0000

Exactly. It’s Google bombing and Google picked up on it. They always do.

As of January 25th of this year Google actually implemented a specific algorithm that minimizes Google bombs. That change finally removed the well-known “miserable failure” link to the White House from the front page.

Great post, by the way.