So what does allinanchor really mean

[plasticangel]

I've checked of my sites main terms.

Seems like when using the allinanchor flag, we got the top spots for most of the terms, but without it, we don't have even the 1,000th spot.

What exacly that flag means?

Does it mean that the anchor text of our backlinks are too optmized?

I've e-mailed most of the ppl that i found that linked to use, and asked them to switch the anchor text to our main terms, wasn't it a good idea?

[rfgdxm1]

I'm not quite sure. I can't find what Google says about this on their site? Anyone have the link? The interesting thing is for most searches, allinanchor: gives nearly identical results. Suggesting that anchor text is a very major part of the algo.

Added: I am not sure if having too much of the same anchor text gets a penalty. This would really kill commercial sites that have a brand name. Such as Burger King not coming up #1 for a "Burger King" search because so many sites link to them with that. If Google does penalize, they must do so from a specific word list. And possibly look for other SEO characteristics of the page.

[oodlum]

It's one of Google's advanced search tools.

[google.com...]

Return results where my terms occur:

anywhere in the page
in the title of the page
in the text of the page
in the URL of the page
in links to the page

The last one "in links to the page" uses allinanchor

[rfgdxm1]

Thanks oodlum. The way I think allinanchor works is that it excludes pages that don't have even one page linking to them with the anchor text.