Questions about Keywords and Link Anchor Text
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Hi Chris,Just a couple of questions if you have a moment… By commenting on your website and staying in the top 10 commenters I see I’m getting hundreds of links to my website from yours and its steadily going up. Because they are all from the same site, just how much value do the links have as far as Google is concerned?Also, its supposed to be better if the link anchor text has your key words in it. I’m just using Mel and for my last comment “10 simple things every housewife can do to make money online” I added “house sitting” after my name and that comment wasn’t counted. Is it possible for you to add those words to my name so when I comment in future that is what’s shown in the top 10 commenters?Thanks very much for the opportunity to get these back links.Regards,Mel
Hi Mel,
Google will credit you for both links from one site as well as multiple links from the same site. I would suggest that to really optimize your back link value (both on my website as well as others) you take the time to do a couple of things.
First, there is value in keywording your post so for example “Mel @ House Swap Holidays” as the author (the site uses your last keyword in the comments) this will help a little, but to be honest my math on it shows that you’re better to remain personable. Google’s clever and they know what you’re doing.
Secondly, don’t link to the root of your site. Take the time to link each comment to a post or page on your website. For example, instead of linking to http://mindahome.com.au/ each time you post, linking to http://mindahome.com.au/questions/house-sitting will increase your PageRank value on that specific page. Spend a week linking to one specific page, then do another. I tend to link my comment text to low PR / high AdSense value pages, this helps me not only bring it visitors but AdSense cash!
Hope that helps and as always, thanks for visiting and taking the time to post to my site.
Chris
Thanks for the post. I went on holiday for 10 days and when I got back I was off the list although I had over 15 posts. I was thinking the count was done per month, is this correct?
Very useful to know; though I am keen to know how google discounts he links.
I know after X amount of links from a site google discounts them. Though how do they decide which ones to discount? or is it a ‘bulk’ thing?
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Absolutely spot on. Deep linking is key. No website looks like it’s links are natural if they all point to the home page.
Deep linking is a great thing, al though I am pretty sure I do not do it enough :)Also just a small advice: If you comment regularly (spelled right?) on several blogs, use different names, Eg. casper, casper christensen, casper @mymoneyblog.info etc. Google tend to raise the red flag if to many links comes with same anchor text as it looks un-natural.
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