Internal link anchor text

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While it's a good idea to use keywords in your anchor text, in some places it's just not appropriate for simplicity sake (build sites for your visitors, not bots). On the homepage of one of my sites, I have links to that site's forums. The navigational link for it simply says "forums" but in the header I have the forum link with it's primary keyword term and dsecription. Would it be wise to put a nofollow on the "forums" navigational link to only have internal anchors with the keywords... or keep both links?

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1. Over-Optimization of Internal Link Anchor Text: A perfectly optimized link points to content that is a perfect landing page for the keyword, and Google isn't going to give
2. Anchor text is the clickable text that a user will see as a link
3. you don't want throw off flow text, or whatever reason) you can use images sculpt relevance, make visual suggestion or act as internal links
4. These connections are made using anchor tags to create links
5. Do javascript internal link menus count as much as internal html links? I have a js menu that users can click to get to their state as the html
6. Internal linking is usually done badly, but doing it right is very easy
7. Keep your footers clean, use the anchor text well, and link to the key internal pages of your website and you will have a well optimized footer

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[tjenchjp]

As far as my test results go about this, Google only pertains weight to the first link encountered (browsing top to bottom in the HTML).



So a second link to the same identical URL would just be ignored.



It would be wise to put a nofollow yes, IMHO

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1. On index pages (internal hubs) and in other long internal links it makes sense to use the page title as anchor text
2. There is a null alt="" attribute on the image, you rely on the anchor text and the path/file naming conventions to provide the semantics of the link
3. Pages you do want to rank high for then yes, you should use anchor text, sometimes it can take one internal link to rank high for certain keyword phrases
4. to make sure that the anchor text for each and every internal link in your site best reflects the target keywords for the page it's pointing to
5. It's very important the anchor text accurately describes the content on the external or internal link pages
6. It seems if Google finds an appropriate anchor link then its pulling in that link exactly as it finds it
7. Have you ever thought about internal link saturation? The goal in this exercise would be to minimize the number of internal anchors and make

[pmdceo]

Can I explore further? Are you saying that you believe it would be good practice to use nofollow attribute on "Home" anchor links and then use "keyword" anchor further down in the page for site's HOME page? Our menu is across the top of the page on every page on our site. Since it wouldn't be appropriate to use keyword in the menu, we should use nofollow on "Home" and include keyword with URL for home page? Keyword is already on pages with links, just didn't realize that "home" link might have kept it from being read by SE's. Is this the general following? It does make a lot of sense now that you've got me to think about it. Google says there's a lot of competition for the word "Home" - 7,050,000,000 - Don't think I have a chance in * of kicking NASA out of that coveted spot.

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1. If it was a more frequently used phrase the blogger may have to post hundreds of the links through anchor text to get noticed
2. Link Pages Using Targeted Anchor Text - The final step is to apply your keyword research to intelligent inter-linking; you do this by linking to content
3. What you should try and avoid in the setup of your navigation or links within content using unrelated anchor text to link to a page
4. You do this among other ways by having a link back to your home page -- and this link should contain anchor text -- from every page on the site
5. Whether Building Backlinks or Internal Links, using Anchor Text for your Keywords is very important
6. Internal - Links to anchors on the current page; Local - Links to other pages within your domain; Global - Links to other domains outside of your site
7. You can use anchor text in: External links - links from other sites; Internal links - links on your pages; Navigation maps; Links on your main page
8. How to use Anchor Text when Link Building for SEO