Is it possible that anchor texted links don't count at all?

[rihsatnum]

Over the last few months I have managed to get, what I think are some really good links to our real estate site. I have diversified the anchor text using things like "[city] real estate", "real estate agent in [city]", "[city] realtors", etc.

The result............nothing!

Previously, for our main terms were bouncing between #8 and #12. Now, several months later, for these terms the results are the same.

The sites above ours don't seem to be doing SEO. It really should be easy to get ahead of them.

I was wondering if perhaps in Google's quest to "keep things natural" they have completely devalued links with anchor text? I'm thinking of only using my url for my next links to see what happens.

What do you guys think?

 

[OldWelshGuy]

it isn't the anchor text that is the decider it is a whole host of other things. Surrounding text is a HUGE factor now, if you have poor quality or off topic surrounding text then those links will be devalued.

Are the links do follow?
Are the links actually indexed in google?

You state your competitors are not doing any SEO? if that is the case it will be the first City I have heard of where the Realators on Page 1 have not and are not carrying out any form of SEO/Internet Marketing (resulting in link building)

Building links' means nothing, put some context on it. What sort of links are they for instance.

 

[fashionprintdesigner]

Hi

what is a follow link.
what is this thing called losing juice

thank you

Mandii

 

[terryuk]

Link juice could mean the difference between a full freshly squeezed orange juice to your tescos own orange squash.

100% pure and tasty or diluted and not too good

So like putting a glass of water into fresh orange juice

 

[WhiteRoseSEO]

The quality of your links and anchor text is not solely responsible for your rankings. You can have all the links in the world but, without solid optimisation and quality content throughout your site, the links will not make any difference to your ranking. It is probably a case of tweaking a few things before you see an improvement in your rankings.

 

[Ali-v-8]

link juice is your sites value - the more links coming in from good sources the more juice you have.
However when you link out then you loose that juice.
However you can loose juice from one term and gain from another.
The trick is never to loose juice (link out) with a term you are targeting.

Follow links are links sending search engine spiders to a page you refer them to crawl. "no follow" links allow a user to follow but stop spiders crawling.

 

[fashionprintdesigner]

.... this is going to sound daft....

but do we not want spiders to crawl?????

 

[fashionprintdesigner]

......lol, I am gonna get kicked off here........

TOO MANY QUESTIONS........

 

[OldWelshGuy]

there is no such tag as 'dofollow' but it is easier to write that than write 'non nofollow'

There is a link attribute called 'NOFOLLOW . Google use this as a signal that you are happy to link to the site, but you do not wish to send any link benefit to that page. This could be because the link is a paid link, or it could be because you are linking to a bad page, for example to highlight spammy websites. the absolute last thing you would want to do would be to vote and recommend that page, yet how else can you tell people about it?

These are the main legitimate reasons for using NOFOLLOW.

Ok so what DOES it do 9now we know what it doesn't allow). Google will use the nofollow link for URL discovery. Search engine spiders no longer ;'follow' links, and haven't done for a number of years now, due to spider traps. The way it works now is that the spiders get sent a URL, they go to that page crawl it, and send the contents back to the search engine for evaluation. If the page passes muster it is allowed into the index and gets cached, if it fails quality control, the cache is dumped.

Once it has sent the cache back, it then requests a new URL to crawl. In order to make best use of resources, Google and others will crawl based on IP, so if there are other urls close to the current location it will send them those first (as it is quicker, and when we are talking of millions of pages a day, milliseconds add up.

So do we want spiders to crawl? YES.

 

[logicaljackSEO]

How do you determine a really good link?

You need to look for links from high authority websites, that way you will get some trust passed to your site and thus help you in rankings. If you are getting links from new or non-trusted websites then they will not have much affect

 

[Ali-v-8]

Not at all - You are doing the right thing by asking.
Understanding the reasons why something is done leads to questions being answered further on.

......lol, I am gonna get kicked off here........

TOO MANY QUESTIONS........

 

[logicaljackSEO]

Not at all - You are doing the right thing by asking.
Understanding the reasons why something is done leads to questions being answered further on.

I'd be careful, if you take a closer look 'fashionprintdesigner' is asking questions about stuff not mentioned previously in the thread, and there are multiple posts doing this across different threads. Looks like he is just getting his post count up...

 

[Ali-v-8]

Are you kidding?
Sensible questions and a member. I will make my own mind up thank you.
Take a look at your post count before you make that comment.

I'd be careful, if you take a closer look 'fashionprintdesigner' is asking questions about stuff not mentioned previously in the thread, and there are multiple posts doing this across different threads. Looks like he is just getting his post count up...