Tue 20 Jan 2009
Blog & Forum Baiting – Get Anchor Text Rich Links
Blurb by Shaun Anderson (Hobo)If you’ve followed the advice and got some articles to the top of Google – you might now be starting to get links to your article from forums and blogs?
Of course you know when you are at the top of the SERPS for particular keywords, particularly how to tutorials, you start picking up organic links from forums and blogs who see these articles as trusted articles because, well, they are at the top of Google.
When helping each other out, forum members often use Google to find an authority article, and link to it to help newbies. Often they will usually just copy and paste the URL like so:
http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/*****
Not ideal. Sometimes it’s worth it go one step further and provide them with the BBcode and HTML versions of a nice anchor text rich link to start getting those keyword rich links to your site. Every now and again, change the anchor text to mix your backlink profile a little.
Link to this page using BBcode
Check Out[URL=www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/blog-forum-baiting-get-anchor-text -rich-links/] Blog & Forum Baiting - Get Anchor Text Rich Links From Forums & Blogs[/URL] on the Hobo website.
Link to this page using HTML
Take a look at <a href=" http://www.hobo-web.co.uk/seo-blog/blog-forum-baiting-get-anchor-text- rich-links/"> Blog & Forum Baiting - Get Anchor Text Rich Links</a> on Hobo.
I have used this with varying degrees of success in the past. Might work for some of your very best articles.
Did you know when you link to a Hobo SEO post we have search engine friendly links back to your site if approved? Our comments are also search engine friendly you know (once you've commented on a few posts)! Do you need any more encouragement to get involved in the conversation ;)

hey Shaun,
FYI – on this post the right column is on top of the middle column and makes the post content hard to read. I haven’t noticed this on your other posts. I’m using Firefox 3.
~ Steve, purveyor of quality trade show booths
I’m a firm believer in providing html whenever possible, especially in link request emails. This can be a big help when you’re really aggressively pursuing links, because you never really know how savvy any given “webmaster” will be.
As an FYI, I’m having the same issue as Steve with Firefox 3.
Cheers!
Thanks for the heads up about the formatting. It’s to do with the code o the page – it’s supposed to wrap. Will get it checked out.
Nice link code, I sometimes try adding a title to the link (title=”more keywords!”)
Would placing a BBcode like this but with different keyword text work in blog comments that allow the use of BBcode in the comment section.
Would be useful if it did.