Comments on: Vary Your Link Text (and eat your vegetables or else!) http://www.mikeliebner.com/linking/vary-link-text-and-eat-vegetables/ The Creative Power of Mike Liebner Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:22:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: leow_john http://www.mikeliebner.com/linking/vary-link-text-and-eat-vegetables/#comment-71775 leow_john Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:21:01 +0000 http://www.mikeliebner.com/?p=121#comment-71775 By the way, my blog link is <a href="http://thejoblessblog.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">The Jobless Blog</a>. Would be very kind of you to drop by! By the way, my blog link is The Jobless Blog. Would be very kind of you to drop by!

]]> By: leow_john http://www.mikeliebner.com/linking/vary-link-text-and-eat-vegetables/#comment-71774 leow_john Sun, 17 Aug 2008 11:18:20 +0000 http://www.mikeliebner.com/?p=121#comment-71774 Hi Mike, Yea i think its really a dumb idea to try to show many target text links to Google. I've seen many people doing it, and off they go into that Google slap ha. I think that the best way to play it safe with Google is to think logically and not rush. Patience reaps its rewards! Anyway, informative site you have here and also with article underground! thanks for all these helpful info on your blog. All the best! John Leow Hi Mike,

Yea i think its really a dumb idea to try to show many target text links to Google. I’ve seen many people doing it, and off they go into that Google slap ha.

I think that the best way to play it safe with Google is to think logically and not rush. Patience reaps its rewards!

Anyway, informative site you have here and also with article underground! thanks for all these helpful info on your blog.

All the best!

John Leow

]]> By: neuron http://www.mikeliebner.com/linking/vary-link-text-and-eat-vegetables/#comment-71516 neuron Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:05:27 +0000 http://www.mikeliebner.com/?p=121#comment-71516 You are dead on, but I've been telling this to people for years and it just goes in one ear and out the other. Not only is is important for LSI, but for Hilltop as well, where if you only have one keyterm linking to a page you'll show up on the radar as a tree, as a spike, and not as a hill, and your spike will be disregarded as an inadvertence. The worst of the worst of people who do this are into reputation management, where they get totally focused on moving multiple pages down in the SERPs to get the bad reviews off and get other pages to rank higher than the bad reviews. The clients won't even pay for a link that is not the exact term they want removed, and I mean I've seen this from multiple reputation management clients. Also, this variation in anchor text also semi-subscribes to the "half-drunken SEO" methodology. You don't want things to be "perfect". The SEs are against "the machine", that is, computer generated content and links. Even if it comes from a person, if they are working like a robot, how do you tell it's not a computer doing it. The SE's love the human touch. To err is human. The SE's love it. You are dead on, but I’ve been telling this to people for years and it just goes in one ear and out the other. Not only is is important for LSI, but for Hilltop as well, where if you only have one keyterm linking to a page you’ll show up on the radar as a tree, as a spike, and not as a hill, and your spike will be disregarded as an inadvertence.
The worst of the worst of people who do this are into reputation management, where they get totally focused on moving multiple pages down in the SERPs to get the bad reviews off and get other pages to rank higher than the bad reviews. The clients won’t even pay for a link that is not the exact term they want removed, and I mean I’ve seen this from multiple reputation management clients.
Also, this variation in anchor text also semi-subscribes to the “half-drunken SEO” methodology. You don’t want things to be “perfect”.
The SEs are against “the machine”, that is, computer generated content and links. Even if it comes from a person, if they are working like a robot, how do you tell it’s not a computer doing it. The SE’s love the human touch. To err is human. The SE’s love it.

]]> By: internetguruwatch http://www.mikeliebner.com/linking/vary-link-text-and-eat-vegetables/#comment-71109 internetguruwatch Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:36:29 +0000 http://www.mikeliebner.com/?p=121#comment-71109 Hey Mike, Everything you say here seems to match with how some pundits are praising the benefits of LSI, or Latent Semantic Indexing, that helps Google maintain search relevancy by distinguishing between polynyms, words with multiple meanings. In other words, if you vary your anchor text to include related words, latent semantic indexing adds weight to rankings, because related words in the backlinks to your site are better matched to a natural, organic linking patterns. For example, a page about 'music' will fair better if it includes words like radio, records, CD, video, download, listen, and MP3 -- and, from what you are saying here, the same benefit holds true when the anchor text is varied in the hyperlinks pointing to your page... Do you have a systematic way of selecting the related phases to use in your anchor text? Cheers!! Doug Hey Mike,
Everything you say here seems to match with how some pundits are praising the benefits of LSI, or Latent Semantic Indexing, that helps Google maintain search relevancy by distinguishing between polynyms, words with multiple meanings.

In other words, if you vary your anchor text to include related words, latent semantic indexing adds weight to rankings, because related words in the backlinks to your site are better matched to a natural, organic linking patterns.

For example, a page about ‘music’ will fair better if it includes words like radio, records, CD, video, download, listen, and MP3 — and, from what you are saying here, the same benefit holds true when the anchor text is varied in the hyperlinks pointing to your page…

Do you have a systematic way of selecting the related phases to use in your anchor text?

Cheers!!

Doug

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