Comments on: Anchor Text For Internal Links http://www.userdrivenchange.com/anchor-text-for-internal-links/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anchor-text-for-internal-links Give Them What They Want Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: MikeTek http://www.userdrivenchange.com/anchor-text-for-internal-links/#comment-193 MikeTek Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:00:23 +0000 http://www.100dollarseo.com/?p=273#comment-193 I think it's safe to assume that 710 words of anchor text was a mistake - although I'm sure the SEOs in charge of major websites in the upper traffic brackets play with all sorts of things we don't notice on an average day. They've got so much attention from the bots - they can go from SEO theory to fact in less than a day (links from other websites being the exception, of course). When it comes to internal PageRank distribution I'd assume a site like Inc.com is able to see the effects almost in real time after making a change to anchor text or other factors. Reason enough to play around and see what the deal is. For conventional purposes, though - I'd assume linking 710 words won't help you much (and certainly won't make for a great user experience). When it comes to search engines, though, I almost always find that what seems like an obvious spam filter trigger ends up either unnoticed or rewarded. I think it’s safe to assume that 710 words of anchor text was a mistake – although I’m sure the SEOs in charge of major websites in the upper traffic brackets play with all sorts of things we don’t notice on an average day. They’ve got so much attention from the bots – they can go from SEO theory to fact in less than a day (links from other websites being the exception, of course). When it comes to internal PageRank distribution I’d assume a site like Inc.com is able to see the effects almost in real time after making a change to anchor text or other factors. Reason enough to play around and see what the deal is.

For conventional purposes, though – I’d assume linking 710 words won’t help you much (and certainly won’t make for a great user experience). When it comes to search engines, though, I almost always find that what seems like an obvious spam filter trigger ends up either unnoticed or rewarded.

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