10 day SEO Guide to Supercharge your Online Business - Anchor text, Alt Tag & Title Tag
Written on 10:17 PM by Mrudula
Now let us discuss about Anchor Text and Alta & Title Tags.
Anchor Text:
Those who have done some serious reading about search engine optimization, probably would have come across the phrase 'anchor text optimization' or 'optimization of anchor text'.
The anchor text or link label is the visible, click able text in a hyperlink.
Anchor Text Enhances the Relevance of the Target Page. Keywords in anchor text enhance the relevance of the target page pertaining to the keywords used. While the relevance of the page containing the anchor text is also enhanced to some degree The inclusion of important keywords in the anchor text can make a big difference in the ranking of your site pages. All search engines that matter, give significant weight to the anchor text on your pages. In fact Google even has a special operator: allinanchor:keyword', which picks up text only from within the anchor text of indexed pages. For example:
Anchor text optimization can be deployed throughout your site to enhance the relevance of most of the web pages based on individual page content. You would be surprised, how easy it is, to find suitable instances of hyper linking structures to make use of optimized anchor text.
When linking to internal pages, it is better to use the format:
Read all about Anchor Text Optimization.
Instead of
Read all about Anchor Text Optimization here.
The above example shows us that you can leverage the hyper linking of important keyword phrases instead of hyper linking unrelated text wherever possible. It is always a great idea to restructure sentences if keywords don't fit in anchor text.
Using Keywords in Natural Text to Create Anchor Text
You can also locate (or insert) important keyword phrases in your page's natural text and link it to relevant target pages of your site. Consider the paragraph below: -
Search Engine Optimization is an important part of any search engine marketing initiative. Some people believe that submitting the site to search engines alone is sufficient in getting top-10 ranking. This is not true. Search engine submission only announces your site’s existence to search engines. To get a good search engine ranking, it is important that you carry out Title tag optimization, Meta tags optimization and anchor text optimization of your website amongst other SEO techniques. You’ll need to optimize the visible text of your site through SEO copy writing after an extensive keyword phrase research. It is also important to boost your Google Page Rank in order to get a good website ranking. You can increase Page Rank of your site by building your site’s link popularity through a link building campaign. A link exchange campaign with good industry relevant sites is the simplest way to get several incoming links to your site quickly. Remember, search engine positioning is a powerful media for your website promotion.
Now notice below how the above text is reformatted where highly relevant keyword phrases have been converted into powerful anchor text. Each keyword phrase links to an important relevant section of the same site -
Search Engine Optimization is an important part of any search engine marketing initiative. Some people believe that submitting the site to search engines alone is sufficient in getting top-10 ranking. This is not true. Search engine submission only announces your site's existence to search engines. To get a good search engine ranking, it is important that you carry out Title tag optimization, Meta tags optimization and anchor text optimization of your website amongst other SEO techniques. You'll need to optimize the visible text of your site through SEO copy writing after an extensive keyword phrase research. It is also important to boost your Google Page Rank in order to get a good website ranking.You can increase Page Rank of your site by building your site's link popularity through a link building campaign. A link exchange campaign with good industry relevant sites is the simplest way to get several incoming links to your site quickly. Remember, search engine positioning is a powerful media for your website promotion.
While the above example seems like overkill, this is just to illustrate how you can accommodate your important keyword phrases by carefully rewording the text of your web pages. If you feel that the standard blue underlined hyperlinks appear ugly on your website, then you can re-format its HTML markup code to change color of the text and get rid of the underline without losing the power of the anchor text.
You may not have noticed, but the first paragraph also has the same keywords hyper linked, but without usual underlines. Bring your mouse over the keywords to notice your cursor show up the hyperlink.
Optimizing Anchor Text of External Links
Keywords within the anchor text are equally useful from links pointing to your website. If you are pursuing or considering a link building campaign, put some serious thought in writing multiple options of the title and description of the link pointing to your website.
The "title" which is usually used as the hyper-linked text, should contain your important keywords. It is good to work with ten different options of title and description as it not only gives you more room to play with several keywords, but it also helps search engines give you a wider keyword coverage.
When soliciting external links, it is better to provide your own "cut and paste" HTML code. Webmasters like it when a ready to paste HTML code is available for them to use, to provide a link to your website.
Anchor text therefore comes on top of the checklist in your SEO initiatives.
ALT Tags:
The alt attribute is commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as an image's "alt tag". It is not intended to provide "pop up" text or tooltips when a user's mouse hovers over the image, though alt text has historically been presented in this way in some web browsers; HTML's title attribute is intended for supplementary information that can be used in this way. (To use alt correctly and suppress the tooltip that some web browsers generate, a web author can use an empty title attribute.)
When you're trying to create effective page content that will appeal to both human visitors and search engine spiders, you need to get the most out of every page element. One way to do this is to use ALT and TITLE attributes to the images.
As said ALT attribute is designed to be an alternative text description for images. ALT text displays before the image is loaded.
Benefits of good ALT and TITLE text:
* Enhance the browsing experience of visitors with disabilities.
* Increase your page's keyword density score and relevancy for your targeted keywords. (Calculate your page's keyword density with Page Primer and find out if you've used your keywords too little - or too often.)
* Provide valuable information to all your visitors with descriptive link titles and descriptive text about other page elements.
Be careful not to make your ALT and TITLE text too long because all Netscape browsers display it on one line. If you try to stuff several sentences of text into a single attribute, your Netscape visitors may only be able to read a portion of it.
Few coding techniques give you so many benefits for so little effort.
Let us discuss about Hx Tags in the next post.
- Munnu
