Anchor Text Link Building for SEO and Building Backlinks
In this article I’ll discuss Anchor Text, Internal Links, Link Building for SEO. and Building Backlinks.
So when I first started in link building for seo I made plenty of mistakes. At the time I thought that commenting on a blog or forum with just a plain link to my site, ie: http://www.domain.com/, is all that I needed to do to build backlinks for my site. So I created about 100 backlinks by commenting on blogs and using the signature field on community forums expecting that within days my site would begin to rank better and start receiving traffic from Google.
A few days passed, then a week, then two weeks and still no traffic from Google. I was frustrated that I spent nearly 2 days building links and I had nothing to show for it. So I read some articles on link building for seo and how to build good backlinks before I realized what I had been doing wrong. Now obviously I know this now but I didn’t then. when I started to build backlinks for my site I didn’t use any anchor text… duh!
Bad Link Building:
http://www.domain.com/
Example: http://nichetitans.com/anchor-text-link-building-for-seo-and-building-good-backlinks
Good Link Building:
Target Keyword or Name of Site
Anchor Text Link Building for SEO and Building Good Backlinks
Building Backlinks with Anchor Text:
Now when building backlinks using anchor text is extremely important. Once I began using anchor text during link building within a week I was receiving a few hits a day from Google. Now this isn’t always going to be the case and it really depends on how competitive the keyword is you’re trying to target. In this case I was lucky being a rookie having targeted a keyword with little competition. Regardless what keyword you’re targetting it’s going to be difficult to rank for it unless you learn how to build good backlinks.
Internal Links with Anchor Text:
It’s very important that pages within your site use anchor text to point to other pages on your site or the page itself. Internal linking using anchor text is part of what search engines use to determine your position in search engine rankings. Anchor text or hyperlink text should be a very brief title or description of the content on that page. Here is an example of using anchor text to target another page here on Niche Titans, which helps with SEO:
Answer this question… what are backlinks? If you don’t already know what backlinks are then you probably aren’t quite ready to read this article and should read that article first.
Also make sure that you’ve read and understand Targeted Content, Keyword Density, Backlink Anchor Text, Link Building for SEO, and Anchor Text for Internal Links. I’ve followed these same basic principles to get to page1 spot1 on both Google and Yahoo. Also many seo gurus discount building links using different keywords as anchor text that point to the same page. I’ve listed an example of internal linking that looks like keyword spam working well.
NW ATV Rentals
http://www.nwatvrentals.com/
If you Google, “portland atv rentals“, they come up in the #2 spot on page1. Take a look at the internal link structure and look at it closely. This guy has managed to capture the #2 spot in Google for a low competition keyword with only 88 backlinks, good keyword density and using his target keywords as anchor text for his internal links.
Example:
Internal Links with Anchor Text:
Link Building For SEO
Build Backlinks For My Site
How To Build Good Backlinks
Building Backlinks
If you notice these are also some of the tags create for this article. 
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My keywords are a bit more competitive, but I’ve been building the anchor text one link at a time…..now I’m #5 (page one) in the Organic SERP.
Excellent article!
You raise a very good point about anchor text being important, because it is. The gurus over at SEOmoz universally agree that anchor text is one of the biggest factors of getting those link juices flowing.
I am drafting an article on this very topic for my own blog, and will probably be providing a link here. Again, very well done!
This is not really a secret in the SEO but internal link structure is often overlooked by bloggers and newbie marketers. What I would be interested in seeing is how LSI terms anchored throughout a blog would affect rankings for keywords that are in the same theme…for instance, would having anchor text for affiliate marketing theories help the ranking of a page that is primarily targeted for “internet marketing?” If it doesn’t now, I would be willing to bet it will in the future.
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