Comments on: Keyword Link Power

By: Luke

Luke — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:42:23 +0000

Hmm, I’m not sure I agree with you here but it’s interesting.

I haven’t measured correctly but it seems to me that anchor text links with:

Designer Dog Clothes

do not contribute at all to the ranking of

Dog Clothes

If I study a competitor’s backlinks when competing for Dog Clothes, if they have mostly Designer Dog Clothes anchor text but little Dog Clothes, I seem to recall, from my recent experience, that I’ll compete pretty well if I have Dog Clothes anchor text, combined with other related phrases that do NOT contain the word “Dog Clothes” (Google understands synonyms of course).

Now, this has just been my approach that I have had some success with, but it could be that I’m missing something.

I would happily go for

Dog Clothes
Designer Dog Clothes
Cheap Dog Clothing

If those were my 3 best keywords.

Google understands that Dog Clothes and Dog Clothing are “synonyms” or keywords in the same market.

That has just been my approach. But of course I always have things I can learn or improve.

*** Thanks for the reminder about spending 80% of time on backlinks! That’s a great tip and would work wonders - no matter the anchor text variation style! ***

Luke

By: Shristy Chandran

Shristy Chandran — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:38:06 +0000

Rightly said, i was aware of this for quite a long time, but needed to be sure about it, i agree with you that keyword linking has to help all those discussions of varying keyword texts in various backlinks is not so right, may be other related words in the keyword phrase can change but the actual keyword that you are looking to rank for needs to remain same so that the googlebot don’t get confused

By: Melanie

Melanie — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:32:19 +0000

Good point, thanks for the reminder!

By: China travel

China travel — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:52:55 +0000

Thanks for good ranking information,this is old way but good way to get ranking.:D