Anchor text

[fresh]

Lets say your main keyword is hot teens and you target it. When trading links/getting backlinks do you use only this anchor text (because you want to get rank high as possible for this term)? Doesn't that look suspicious for search engine that all backlinks are with same anchor?

[msanchez]

Well since SEO is more an art than a science IMO I will just say what I think about this from my own experience.

With this scenario I would say that since "hot teens" is a fairly competitive term and gets a lot of searches you would want to have a lot of inbound links with ideally the text "Hot Teens" hyperlinked in a block of good text. Not every link though, you could mix it up with "Hot Naked Teens" or "Hot Nude Teens" which are also pretty popular terms that are related to the main term. I would make my on page optimization geared towards "Hot Teens" and all of the lesser related terms that where worthwhile.

I think that having the inbound links the same does look less than organic to the SE's that matter, so it is a good idea to mix it up with related terms surrounded by relevant text.

[MrFlicker@NP]

Hot Teens eh

I might just ponder / think how to conquer and take control of Google for that one to . .

I might get my "I am a bot" or "in your shoes" head around that one like many others (LOL)

[parusa619]

Originally Posted by fresh

Lets say your main keyword is hot teens and you target it. When trading links/getting backlinks do you use only this anchor text (because you want to get rank high as possible for this term)? Doesn't that look suspicious for search engine that all backlinks are with same anchor?

I do that sometimes but it is better if you have the targetted keyword plus other words for you not to be obvious in building links.

[Wiggles]

60% that anchortext, 40% another

if you target multiples you can increase first though

[Trancer]

In my opinion if you use inbound link is best to put the anchortext the title of the page it's going. For exemple.... if you have a page that has the title "Now let's get fucked up", the inbound link has to title "Now let's get fucked up", the search engine doesn't penalize this. You just need to focus on the backlinks you get. They have to be verry "strong" and with a high pagerank.

[RageCash-Ben]

Originally Posted by msanchez

Well since SEO is more an art than a science IMO I will just say what I think about this from my own experience.

With this scenario I would say that since "hot teens" is a fairly competitive term and gets a lot of searches you would want to have a lot of inbound links with ideally the text "Hot Teens" hyperlinked in a block of good text. Not every link though, you could mix it up with "Hot Naked Teens" or "Hot Nude Teens" which are also pretty popular terms that are related to the main term. I would make my on page optimization geared towards "Hot Teens" and all of the lesser related terms that where worthwhile.

I think that having the inbound links the same does look less than organic to the SE's that matter, so it is a good idea to mix it up with related terms surrounded by relevant text.

Agreed

[Comrade]

I'd get the first 15 backlinks or so with "hot teens" to get the site going, the next 5 with a variation of the anchor text. Then I'd do an 80%/20% ratio

Try not to add more than 10 backlinks a month though... slow link growth won't bring you instant results but will definitely be better in the long-run.