Comment on Make Money Fast by SEO Dave.

Make Money Fast The #s in the URLs (called anchor tags) are taking advantage of an SEO fact very few SEO’s take advantage of.

See Anchor Text SEO Tests for proof of what is discussed below.

Google only indexes the first link from a page with a unique URL, so if you have 3 links to

domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/

each with different anchor text in this order in the HTML code

1st link: Click Here
2nd link: Make Me Some Cash
3rd link: Make Money Easily

Google will only count the first links anchor text towards this webpages domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/ SERPs.

In this example the “Click Here” is the first link in the code, so the two keyword rich versions of the link pass no SEO benefit to domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/

There is probably a double SEO negative, might also be the anchor text doesn’t count as anchor text on the page the link is on either. Anchor text on a page has more SEO benefit than standard body text, impossible to SEO test, but could be the “Click Here” anchor text is the only text counted as anchor text and “Make Me Some Cash” and “Make Money Easily” could be treated as body text (still indexed and counted, but as body text rather than anchor text).

As you can imagine that’s not good when you consider a lot of sites have a sitewide Homepage link with Home as the anchor text high in the code!

By adding an anchor (that’s #something) to a URL it becomes a unique link to Google and Google counts it as a unique link.

Simply making sure links 2, 3 etc… have #something added all the anchor text counts.

domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/ – Click Here
domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/#cash – Make Me Some Cash
domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/#money – Make Money Easily

Now all three links anchor text will count.

You can also use this to stop links passing anchor text benefit.

domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/ – Make Me Some Cash
domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/ – Click Here
domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/#money – Make Money Easily

or

domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/#cash – Make Me Some Cash
domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/#cash – Click Here
domain.tld/make-me-some-cash/#money – Make Money Easily

Because links one and two are identical only link one (as found in the code) counts, the “Click Here” anchor text is treated as body text, in effect the Click Here link doesn’t exist.

You could use this to have a homepage link with anchor text Home which doesn’t damage your home page SERPs:

domain.tld/ – Make Me Some Cash
domain.tld/ – Home
domain.tld/#money – Make Money Easily

Google would see a page with these three links as having two links to the home page with anchor text “Make Me Some Cash” and “Make Money Easily”.

This SEO concept is built into Stallion Responsive for automated links (most widgets etc…). To use it inside a WordPress post I manually add the #something anchor. With this comment I added a link near the top and added the anchor #money to it so if there’s another link to tat webpage both links definitely count.

David