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Google and Anchor Text

When does it become spam?

         

Imaster

12:58 pm on May 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I have a site in which I have pages for different colored widgets, e.g, red, blue, green, etc. I have 1 page for each color, and have linked all the pages internally such that the left hand side links are like this,
Blue Widgets
Red Widgets
Green Widgets
Yellow Widgets
so on... (for some 30 colors)

Now, would this repetition of the keyword Widgets in all those links be considered as spam? I would think not because afterall when a user clicks on the link "Yellow Widget", he will be taken to a related specific page on Yellow Widgets.

Or should I keep the links like
Blue
Green
Red
Yellow
and so on..

and omit the word Widgets in all those links.

jon80

1:25 pm on May 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



That's not spam.
It is useful navigation for the person browsing your site.

DaveN

2:46 pm on May 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



I may be wrong so if somebody wants to correct me then please do so.

it's a percentage game. but....

if your website is themed and optimised for WIDGETS and your internal pages are themed blue widget, yellow widget and green widget.

Using a on themed page and just using the anchor text "BLUE" linking to a themed blue widget page instead of a of "blue widget" will carry a VERY similar weight as the "blue widget"

it works similar to 1000 websites about "sheep" pointing to a "wolf" website the wolf site can rank well for KW's sheep

DaveN