Comments on: SEO Tutorial – Anchor Text Optimization

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:42:18 +0000

I’ve read in a few places that anchor text is weighted more than an image alt text. Does anyone have current testing that clearly shows this? Logically IMO it makes sense as you could have an image of grapes, but your image alt text says bananas. The search engines would have a tough time programmatically knowing. So I’d imagine they can’t fully trust image alt.. Thoughts?

By: SEO Training Online

SEO Training Online — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:58:14 +0000

Hello

When I read this article, it seems like you want that one shud not use Title/Alt tag. Is it?

Thanks

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:08:45 +0000

So if I write an article and someone asks for anchor text, they actually want a word eg Home insurance highlighted/linked, that is the anchor text? The link will then be the long piece of html that they give me?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:59:10 +0000

Great article – great test – very helpful.

Question: Does Google weigh the value of anchor text links differently than alt-attribute text links? Or in other words, is it better to link from inline text than from images with alt-text?

Thanks!

By: Dave Keys - Real Estate SEO Expert

Dave Keys - Real Estate SEO Expert — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 13:22:29 +0000

Found this while researching and it clearly makes the case for ALT and TITLE attributes. I’m sharing this page with our SEO students.

By: Grant flower

Grant flower — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:33:11 +0000

Anyway, it should be ignored by Google etc… since alt attribute text is only meant to be associated with images.

By: Mamun

Mamun — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:25:29 +0000

As a new entry in SEO, I was searching SEO and it’s associated issue like anchor text, and after found SEO Gold I got it clearly and really it’s helpful. This site has brought different anchor text affiliated issue, really very helpful. I loved it.

Mamun

By: Tyler G.

Tyler G. — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:04:18 +0000

Pardon, I meant “the *site’s own titles,” not ‘page’s.”

Tyler G.

By: Tyler G.

Tyler G. — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:02:22 +0000

Great article… definitely helpful for figuring out anchor text optimization. My only issue, which I’ve come across a lot with SEO articles, is the use of the page’s own titles exclusively for examples. This has a meta effect where SEO noobs like me get confused. E.g.:

“Quick SEO Tip – note above how we have linked out important phrases like Professional SEO Consultant Services and SEO Tutorial to their respective pages including a link to this page – anchor text.” (I understand this, but I have to think very hard).

For Beginners guides and tutorials I think it’s beneficial to use totally non-SEO related examples.

Thanks again!

Tyler G.

By: hasini

hasini — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:29:47 +0000

i read your article, but i m little bit confused that how many anchor text we will apply on one page. also pls suggest me that how it is useful to get high SERP.

Thanks in advance.