What is "incoming link text?"

[lawboy]

Nothing I read quite explains it. Can anyone show me, rather than tell me?

Thanks!

[Birdman]

Hello,

Webmaster World [webmasterworld.com]

The words above are considered incoming link text...you would want those words to be your targeted keywords, when someone links to your site.

In other words, the words that are actually hyperlinked to another web page are the incoming link text.

Birdman

[Mohamed_E]

<a href="http://your.site.com">great blue widgets</a>

"great blue widgets" is the "incoming link text" or "anchor text" as we more often refer to it. My site is not only linking to yours (voting for it) but telling the world that your site is about "great blue widgets".

<edit>Birdman beat me to it by a fraction of a minute. Question was posted at 3:37 EST, we both answered at 3:46.

I guess that beats the average Help Desk :)</edit>

[lawboy]

Wow, you guys are fast.

Wait, so I have no control of incoming text link? It's all up to the linking site's webmaster?

[DaveN]

ask him nicely

[engine]

To add some control, create the anchor text you'd like them to use and send it to the webmaster, as DaveN says, and ask nicely.