Anchor Text

Anchor Text

Anchor Text is used to placed with the anchor tag (a href). Anchor text is used for clickable link. The clickable link may be Internal Link or External Link.

Anchor Text is very important for human as well as search engines.

For example

The Anchor Text is depend upon the URL structure also. Include the anchor text name in the URLs structure.

Google is number one search engine.

In this example URL structure is Anchor text and pointing to internal linking and Google is also anchor text and which is pointing to external link.

In above example the URLs used for Anchor Text URL structure

http://seolots.blogspot.com/2009/07/urls-structure.html In this, URLs structure is used in the Anchor Text as well as in the URL and which can be easily understand for both search engine as well as for humans.

Good practices for Giving Anchor Text

(1) Choose meaningful Anchor Text: Try to use meaningful Anchor Text and avoid "Click Here" etc. Anchor Texts.

(2) Don't give anchor text to that page which has no meaning with the content of your page.

(3) Give Short Anchor Text: Try to give short Anchor Text. Don't give lengthy Anchor text.

(4) Give Anchor Text for Interlinking: With the help of Interlinking Google can navigate your website better.