SEO Tip - How to put anchor text in your Aussie Bloggers forum signature

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[squadron]

From an SEO viewpoint, it is useful to put your keyword phrase in the anchor text of your forum signature. I know this forum is new and has low link power, but over time this will improve.

The format is as follows:

{url=your url here}anchor text{/url}

Example: {url=http://www.widgets.com.au}Best widget prices{/url}

Note, for instructional purposes I have had to substitute { } for [ ] otherwise this system would translate the code

Make sure that when you try it to use the square brackets ( [ or ]), rather than the curley brackets that I have used in the example.

Give it a go.

[Meg]

Thanks Squadron - very helpful

One small edit

Example: {url=http://www.widgets.com.au}Best widget prices/url}

should be Example: {url=http://www.widgets.com.au}Best widget prices{/url}

of course replacing the { } with [ ]

[squadron]

Good catch. Thanks Meg.

[Snoskred]

I'm always messing up those brackets, usually that exact bracket or the one in front of the text. I posted a post with about 4 links in it yesterday and it took me maybe 5 edits, a magnifying glass and a complete rewrite of the code to get it right in the end.  :blushing:

Don't tell anyone, they all think I'm so technically talented and skillful!  :gum: :gum:

[Lightening]

What would be the best thing to use for a keyword phrase?  Like the name of the blog?

Hey Snos - even technically talented and skillful people are allowed to make mistakes.   

[Kelley]

yeah great. 

Someone want to tell me what the heck all that meant?

(yes I am still trying out every moderately offensive word I can think of!)

SEO ..... WTF?

anchor text?  yeah, what?

[miscmum]

Just testing I got this right...

edit: awesome 

[Kelley]

aaaahhhhh!  Now I see.....

Will try and fix mine.

[Kelley]

Did I do it?

edited to add:

Yay!  Go me!  Now to think of something witty and clean to add to my sig 

[Mistress B]

ha think I've got it now! Thankyou!!

[Snoskred]

You can also change the color of the text by a careful arrangement of tags..

My signature link looks like this -

Code:

[url=http://www.snoskred.org/][size=16pt][color=#000099]~ Snoskred - Life In The Country ~[/color][/size][/url]

If you like, you can copy and paste that - change the URL to yours and put in the text you want - and then simply change the color.

[squadron]

For the search engine optimisation neophytes (nice word that), anchor text is the text that describes the link.

Anchor text is very, very, very (I can't stress this too much), important from a search engine point of view.

If you're selling blue widgets, it is far better to have cheap blue widgets as the link anchor text than Fred's widget emporium.

Ask yourself: "What would people enter into Google to find a site like mine?".

Whatever that search term is should be the anchor text.

For more information, do a Google search on "Google bombing" and you'll learn why anchor text is sooooo important.

Here's a test, what search term/s is my signature optimised for?

[Mistress B]

excellent!! Thanks Snoskred! 

[Jayne13]

Think I might have it right now ?
Yep (about time she mutters ) lol

[Mistress B]

oooo anchor text and signatures.......... we must just about look like we actually know what we are doing now aye Jayne? lol

[Jayne13]

Just about Bettina 

[Sheeps Clothing]

Thanks for the information.
 

[sandgal]

I have to try this out.

- Molly and Coffee ~

[sandgal]

So next question can you make this into an attachment or do you have manually put it in all the time?

~ Molly and Coffee ~

[/color][/size][/url]

[Gemisht]

There is really good instructions with screen shots and everything here. THe bit that you want to change is your forum profile information. Just watch your brackets etc when you do the code 

[sandgal]

Thank you I will have a look.

[sandgal]

This is just a test post.