Just Another Writer

I keep seeing contests that require a backlink to their sites using “anchor text” such as “make money online” in order to enter. Sadly, I had no earthly idea what this was until today. Four years of blogging, and making my links look like this instead of like the make money at home text it could be.

I thought I was being smooth.

Apparently, this entire time, Google has been ignoring my little words and moving right along to those more whorish sites. The unfortunate bottom line? Using anchor text will make your site rank higher in the search engines.

Here are five things you can do:

1. Use words that are relevant to your site in your anchor text.

2. Hope that others who are linking to you are doing the same. These are the backlinks.

3. Ask others to do the same. This is really annoying, so you might want to tell them that they can earn money online.

4. Use anchor text to link back to yourself so that you can make money online. Before I learned this little goody, I would have anchored the words “link back to yourself”. I still may do that sometimes, because apparently, using spammy-looking anchor text too often can make your writing suck.

5. Do not use the same anchor text repeatedly throughout your site, as the search engine spiders will see a web that doesn’t fit their algorhythm and eat you for dinner.

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