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Why will search engines "gulp this information faster" if you use anchor text?

Almost all of the articles I see on the Internet use a resource box with a link back to the author's website. Are you referring to something else?

I don't think that is literally what he meant. They will not read or scan the page faster because there is anchor text, but anchor text will be beneficial to your rankings in the search engine. Plus if you write an article with anchor text back to your site, the search engine now goes to your site from that article as well to "gulp" the info on your site...

Originally Posted by SalesGuy Why will search engines "gulp this information faster" if you use anchor text? Almost all of the articles I see on the Internet use a resource box with a link back to the author's website. Are you referring to something else?

Originally Posted by SalesGuy Why will search engines "gulp this information faster" if you use anchor text? Almost all of the articles I see on the Internet use a resource box with a link back to the author's website. Are you referring to something else?

No, it's not that they gulp anchored text faster, they gulp your keyword faster when it is properly anchored. Hence your keyword gets gulped faster - thus you get more traffic on this keyword.

Plus, a lot of resource boxes don't have anchored text, they have just simple URL.

P.S. Thanks, sandiego, when I was writing the answer, you got my idea explained

Originally Posted by freetraff No, it's not that they gulp anchored text faster, they gulp your keyword faster when it is properly anchored.

Why is that?

Originally Posted by SalesGuy Why is that?

No one knows for sure why search engines choose one tactics and put it ahead another - this is the big SE conspiracy

But the choice with anchored text is quite reasonable. Anchored text is not like simple text, usually people emphasize on something that is really important. So SEs give this text a priority.

Plus SEs like ranking different combinations of parameters like: anchored text + URL + words in the URL + the title of the page given in this URL. When all these match, seems like it is much better for SEs.

Originally Posted by freetraff No one knows for sure why search engines choose one tactics and put it ahead another - this is the big SE conspiracy But the choice with anchored text is quite reasonable. Anchored text is not like simple text, usually people emphasize on something that is really important. So SEs give this text a priority. Plus SEs like ranking different combinations of parameters like: anchored text + URL + words in the URL + the title of the page given in this URL. When all these match, seems like it is much better for SEs.

That makes sense. On the other hand I can't see why a search engine would "gulp your keyword faster when it is properly anchored."

Originally Posted by SalesGuy That makes sense. On the other hand I can't see why a search engine would "gulp your keyword faster when it is properly anchored."

Oh, that's easy. Imagine you have your keyword 'bla-bla' in the article body and the anchored text. Your article may have 3,000 words, SEs can go through them, but why indexing the whole bulk? Just imagine how much info they will have to process with zillions of new articles! That is why (I am not 100% sure) they focus on some major elements: header, meta data, first and last paragraph, anchored text and some other.

Surely the algorythm of checking the content is not stable: it changes all the time. But seems like at the moment my strategy works. So, I decided to share it with the others. Maybe you will give a medal for it or Nobel prize (I can take both).

Originally Posted by freetraff Surely the algorythm of checking the content is not stable: it changes all the time. But seems like at the moment my strategy works. So, I decided to share it with the others. Maybe you will give a medal for it or Nobel prize (I can take both).

I'm not a search engine specialist so no prize from me but definately a "Thank You" for sharing.

Originally Posted by SalesGuy I'm not a search engine specialist so no prize from me but definately a "Thank You" for sharing.

No problems. You are welcome.

I see you are good about recruiting people to this forum (forum stats). If you wish, we can do some affiliating for my new tools. I can give you exclusive commissions. Up to the moment I am selling only one tool (made by my programmers). But before Christmas I will come up with one more (hot thing) or even 2 (I am not sure about the 2nd one if I manage to get it ready before Christmas).

Just a suggestion.

Originally Posted by freetraff I see you are good about recruiting people to this forum (forum stats).

I haven't actively "recruited" anyone. Every once in a while someone will ask me where he/she can find information on learning to sell so I recommend a book (or two) and this forum. Doesn't everyone do this?