SEO Q&A 2024
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- cherub0
I'm trying to understand what "link building" is. I've built a few websites (none successful) and never once gave any thought to the anchor text. Then I see at 8:30 he's explaining the 4 most commonly used anchor phrases (strategy).
-brand name
-title of web page
-the URL you're linking to
-'click here'But he doesn't give the relative power of each. Assuming 'click here' is the weakest of the 4 (not sure if that's true)...
In what scenarios would you opt to use the other 3 methods? Like what are the pros and cons? I know it's case specific but Trooperbill (or anyone) would you care to give some general best practices when deciding what the anchor text should be?
**sends trooperbill signal**
In my specific case, I'm trying to build backlinks to my youtube videos because currently I don't rank for ANYTHING in youtube at all. If it's this hard to rank for videos I can only imagine how hard to rank for websites...
- for outreach you dont want to use brand name just make the anchor part of a sentence containing a long tail version of your keryword.trooperbill
- make sure the page linking to you is from a thematically relevant page on a thematically relevant website. use your keyword in the title tag, h1 and scatteredtrooperbill
- ...around the content.trooperbill
- Excellent... and only now did I realize that anchored h1 links will rank higher. Such an easy thing to change on my website, so refreshing...cherub