What is link anchor text?

I’ve recently began reading a couple of webmaster forums and I keep seeing people refer to “link anchor text”. Can you tell me what it is so I won’t feel like I’m in the dark?

anchor text is explained here –> Anchor text - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

anchor text link is that link where you target in you keywords am rite ?

no, sorry, you are not right

anchor text is where you give an accurate description of the target page

the best anchor text is the same as the TITLE tag of the target page, assuming, of course, that the target page’s TITLE tag is the best description of its contents (and not stuffed with keywords)

anchor text is text that is shown as text and which is hyperlink to webpage and mostly anchor text is keyword you are targeted for link that you want to promote

Hello,
In a nutshell, link anchor text is the “clickable” part of a text link. For example, consider this link:

<a href=“http://www.example.com”>This is the link anchor text for this link</a>

On the page, the link would look like this:
This is the link anchor text for this link
:slight_smile:

anchor text is a keyword which you place in your link building work with hyperlink to url of website.

sadly, this is indeed what’s happening in the web nowadays – questionable “seo strategies” like loading link text with “keywords” are corrupting the basic concept of information sharing

:frowning:

Anchor text is the visible hyperlinked text on the page. Let’s take this example
<a href=“like of site”>text of link </a>
you can also add title attribute that’s guide to google finding link

I will give you a simple explanation. Look at the signature of “r937”. See the “Simply SQL” link. The “Simply SQL” is the anchor text here :slight_smile:

Anchor text is the hyperlinked words on a web page - the words you click on when you click a link. Anchor text usually gives your visitors useful information about the content of the page you’re linking to. It tells search engines what the page is about. Used wisely, it boosts your rankings in search engines, especially in Google.

Anchor text:

HTML: <a href=“Domain name”>Keywords</a>

you must also NOTE this :Anchor text is not only useful for helping web surfers to click on a link and go to the appropriate website or page, but it is also helpful for boosting a website’s search engine ranking. For example, by using targeted keywords in the anchor text, webmasters can achieve higher rankings in search engines, which translates into more traffic to their websites.

Everything that needs to be said has been said.

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