Comments on: Google ignores long link titles?

By: Charles@Acai Antioxidants

Charles@Acai Antioxidants — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:29:51 +0000

It seems to me that Google’s whole intention is to simply make link building hard for the little guy’s. I can’t think of any other reason for them to ignore long tail keywords if they are relevant to what people are searching. All I see is them giving established sites the traffic from those longer tail keywords even if my the newer site is 100 time more relevant to what the end user wants. It’s not fair but what can we do?

By: Nathalia M @ www.juegos-de-amor.com

Nathalia M @ www.juegos-de-amor.com — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:17:05 +0000

Ok, so after all what has been said, i think that google will never stay the same, they change algorithms very often, from what ive heard, so ive got a question, does it matter to google if the keyword ur trying to position is very competitive?

By: Bala@Detroit general contractors

Bala@Detroit general contractors — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:39:27 +0000

Ok. I agreed both positive and negative points here. But my doubt is about the internal keyword density and the inner pointing urls within the site. How about them?

Our SEO guys suggesting us to add some bold keywords list at the footer section to increase the popularity of the density. Is that a good decision or not.

Thanks for your answers in advance.

Note: Please delete my previous post. There was an error in the name

By: admin

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:52:26 +0000

@Charles Fair point. Our case study is a rough test. However, check out the link we cited in the post.

@David Agreed. It does seem illogical. It might be a technical issue with Google.

@jass It totally depends on your niche. Some niches are BY DEFINITION long tail keyword niches.

By: Jake Rocheleau

Jake Rocheleau — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 01:16:58 +0000

This is really useful information, especially with my blog where I try to keep the length of my titles as short as possible. Jake Rocheleau’s last blog post..Interview with Digg-Clone for Designers DesignBump

By: jass

jass — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:34:30 +0000

A short anchor text is better for ranking on the related keyword text while a longer anchor text offers ranking on additional keywords.

Ex. As for ranking on the “adventure travel” keywords, the short anchor text “Adventure travel” provides a better ranking than the anchor text “Adventure travel to South Africa”.

But, the latter provides also ranking on keywords such as “travel south africa”, “adventure travel south africa” and “adventure south africa”.

By: David@LLC Information

David@LLC Information — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:30:47 +0000

I am not arguing against the results you found, but if Google really does that, it seems very illogical. If you use longer search terms, you typically get more relevant results.

For example, “Illinois business attorney” is going to get more focused results than “business attorney” which in turn gets much more focused results than just “attorney.” If Google treats the keyword text link “attorney” more favorably than the longer text links “Illinois business attorney” or “business attorney,” the outcome will be less useful results for users.

By: Charles Palma

Charles Palma — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:27:26 +0000

Well.. Based on the information given above, it seemed that you have not tested it well. You used two (2) websites that operate on different niche which has different competitive environment. It would be much reliable if both websites do operate on same target niche or keyword. Charles Palma’s last blog post..Business.com | Business Directory Online