Why is anchor text important to SEO?

[smartlinktech]

Why is anchor text important to SEO?

[valraj]

Giving Link to the text is called the Anchor text

[Dreamworth]

Anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. SEO best practices dictate that anchor text be relevant to the page you're linking to, rather than generic text. ... The words contained in the anchor text help determine the ranking that the page will receive by search engines such as Google or Yahoo and Bing.

[rscomponentseo]

When you are reading content online and you happen to see that a phrase is a live link, that text with the link is called "anchor text." This is due to the reason it serves like an anchor to the link. Anchor text is also what major search engines like Google use so as to rank backlinks.

[Naksh]

Anchor text is the clickable part of a link that users see. It is important for SEO because it gives search engines a big clue about the content of the linked page.

[mollierhodes]

Anchor text is the visible, clickable text of a link.
Anchor text usually appears in a different color than the surrounding text and is often underlined.
Good anchor text helps the reader to understand what information they might get if they click on the link.
Well-optimized Anchor text is very important to SEO because it increases the chance of readers clicking on your link, and also helps search engines by giving them context.

[ritesh3592]

Anchor text is a ranking element: it's helpful for users, it's helpful for search engines, and it gives the search engine a better idea of what that document is about

[ravikiran]

Anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. SEO best practices dictate that anchor text be relevant to the page you're linking to, rather than generic text. ... The words contained in the anchor text help determine the ranking that the page will receive by search engines such as Google or Yahoo and Bing.

[akashgupta]

Anchor text is the clickable text and anchor text help determine the ranking that the page will receive by search engines

[ellenwilson]

Anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. SEO best practices dictate that anchor text be relevant to the page you're linking to, rather than generic text


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[inoxindia]

Anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. SEO best practices dictate that anchor text be relevant to the page you're linking to, rather than generic text. The blue, underlined anchor text is the most common as it is the web standard, although it is possible to change the color and underlining through html code. The keywords in anchor text are one of the many signals search engines use to determine the topic of a web page.

[HosTechS]

Anchor text is a text link that links to another location or credential information on the Web that is referred to as anchor texts. In short, it's a hyperlink added to a text. In the HTML link, anchor text is as follows: <a href="http://www.example.com">My Example</a>

[dombowkett]

Because anchor text help to add links for a particular keyword.

[sophiawils59]

Enough answers are given, I think now @op know why anchor text is important!!