seo - anchor text variation?

[skinnay]

if you were going to have 100 incoming links to a site, trying to target the phrase "red cars" or something. would you have all 100 lnks with that anchor text? what percentage would you change to include just one keyword or none?

[skinnay]

one bump

[Juilan]

You might not know yet what search phrase is gold. Like for instance say I thought "boobies" was my best keyword and I seo'd the hell out of that, but later looking through my logs I noticed sales coming in from "teen boobies" search terms which I hadn't seo'd for becuase I didn't think it would be any good. So guess what I am saying is if your Parent keyword/main anchor is "Boobies" use that but also sprinkle in some others that are children of it with good overture search sums like, college boobies, teen boobies, flash boobies and monitor what brings you the ROI

[duckduckgoose]

I suggest also using the ALT and TITLE attributes for anchor links. TITLE especially. These usually get used for tooltip text by most web browsers (TITLE more than ALT, at least in theory anyways). In my personal experience, the search engines did pick up these being used and tended to rank links higher that were using them than equivalent ones without. Makes for a bigger page if you have a ton of anchor links, but seems to work well.

Good article on these two if you search google for :
title attribute

and take a look at the third article down (from 456bereastreet.com) explaining recommended use of the two tags.