Posts Tagged ‘anchor text’

Looking Natural: 9 Ways to Add Variety to Your Anchor Text

anchor textEveryone builds links—that is what makes the Internet go around. But when are your link building efforts too much? Who knows? But this article discusses ways to alter your anchor text to make sure your legitimate link building efforts don’t end-up as a false blip on a search engine’s spam-dar.

Natural vs. Unnatural Link Building Video

A short video discussing his experience with natural vs. unnatural link building efforts. It would seem the the search engines are getting much smarter at sniffing out links/websites that are over optimized and rewarding natural link building efforts.

As I have always said, you need to make your links appear natural by altering the anchor text, creating links and citations, linking from high and low PR websites, using a variety of methods/websites, varying your link velocity, etc. I discuss each method in another article, 11 Ways to Camouflage Your SEO and Link Building Efforts.

Keywords 101, Anchor Text and Link Building

Once you have paired down the list of keywords, create a web page that targets 2-3 related keywords/keyword phrases. And then start building links that point to that page. Here’s a few tips to follow: