IITian - 1:02 pm on Jun 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

>Just a thought, have you tried re-writing your page titles?

Thanks for pointing this out. This could be part of the problem. However, it is probably too late with the existing directories containing link to my site - any update request is bound to be viewed with suspicion and I don't want to take any chances. However, I will try this with the new requests.

Other websites that have given my plain url links, give similar link to other too and I cannot do much about that.

However, when a few commercial websites linked to me under reciprocal linking, they did provide me with exactly the anchor text I wanted. However, I have got this uneasy feeing that instead of helping me, this might hurt me in long-run by letting Google know which keywords I am targeting and 'penalize' me to deliver 'organic' results.
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>But I believe there're many many websites, with much more relevant content, that do not have the keyword as the link text.

True, For example, I am targeting a particular keyphrase. I believe that my site contain the most information on that and is designed reasonably well for that. However, it shows up around #6-#8 in the serps, overtaken by sites that got links from DMOZ (and probably others too) with that part of that particular keyphrase. Can't be sure but this anchor text importance might have played a role in that.
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>However anchor on internal pages also counts heavily and the good thing is that you control them :).

True, and I think that is what is keeping my site alive in the serps. Still, it would be nice to be #1 instead of say, #9. :)

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