Dan Janal writes:

Is there a maximum number of anchors allowed in an article?

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Eddington writes:

If I understood it correctly from a previous 2 minute approval tip video, it should be three and two of those should not be self serving. I might be wrong but I believe if I am, someone will clarify this.

Yeah, I think these are amazing tips as they demistfy the issue of anchor text and hyperlinks within the article.

I think it will really make an article more powerful as people are compelled to click on links within the article than the resource box.

Great tips!

October 29, 2010 at 1:07 PM

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Dan,

You can have up to 4 links in your article. A maximum of 2 self-serving and a max of 2 non self-serving.

October 29, 2010 at 1:55 PM

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Eddington writes:

Thanks for rectifying this Penny, I thought I was not quite right:)

October 29, 2010 at 2:59 PM

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Daniel Toscano writes:

Wow, I did not know you were given 2 more keywords for a 401 word article, thanks for pointing that out.

Though now I am sorta confused. You are saying you can have 4 links in your article. Is that counting the article body and author bio?

And you would want 2 different self serving links vs them being the same?

And 3 – 5 keywords per link?

Thanks for clarification!

October 30, 2010 at 12:53 PM

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

Daniel,

4 total links and they can be in the article body or the resource box. If you are going to add a self-serving link to the article body, it must only be one (the other is reserved for the resource box), and it must be near the bottom. You cannot include any links in the first 3 paragraphs of the article body.

We ask that you do not include the same link twice but we won’t send it back if you do.

And yes, 3-5 words in anchor text depending on the article length.

November 1, 2010 at 10:17 AM

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Frankie Cooper writes:

This is an excellent tip that I need to start implementing into my articles. Now I’ll go and listen to the other 2 Minute Approval Tips videos.

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bob johnson writes:

Thanks for nice informative video. Well done.

My problem is understanding what is “informative” and what is “persuasional” with the anchor text. What I say is educational, ie. explaing a term with an article on my site, might get perceived as “selling”. It seems to vary from examiner to examiner so no consistency, other than I basically don’t do anchor text because of it.

Would help if there were some very solid explanation and consistent interpretation.

Thanks.

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Outerwear Fashion Guru writes:

thanks for clarifying the difference between anchor links and hyper-links. I never knew the difference.

Quick question, will we be able to place links at the top of our articles in the future

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Penny, Managing Editor writes:

You can add the links to the article body so long as you don’t add them to the first 1-3 paragraphs (or above the fold). Your article will appear to be spammy or over-promotional.

October 29, 2010 at 2:00 PM

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bob johnson writes:

Thank you Penny. That makes sense. Now if I can only remember it!!!

When you functionally illiterate to start with and then go over age 60 this stuff gets mind boggling just trying to keep up. :)

Have good weekend and thanks for the info..

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Eddington writes:

Hey Bob, don’t say those words to yourself, ever heard that words are powerful? You will become what you say – affirm positively:)

BTW, I know of a 62 year old who is looking after her 92 year old mum – imagine how challenging that can be?

Now what fascinated me about her is she could still manage to juggle internet/network marketing – she installed a blog after taking a course, we shared the same mentor and like we are meeting here, we were meeting on his forum.

I was amazed at the speed at which she was moving, she even went on and started creating videos for YouTube.

So be encouraged, you will remember, refuse to get old lol. You can do rhis thing!

October 29, 2010 at 3:55 PM

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Michael Davis writes:

Thanks for another great tip. I’m a little long-winded so my articles are usually always over 400 words, good to know about the 5 word limit as I have been sticking to three in the past.

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Earlyn Shuffler writes:

Thanks for clarifying the difference between anchor text and hyper linking. I have used both without thinking about the difference.

Now I just use one link (to my website) in the last paragraph of my articles and it seems to work. If the content is interesting and valuable, most people will read to the end and hopefully click to see what else they can learn by visiting my website or Blog.

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Lugene Brantley writes:

Hey Bob, you are never too old. I find a lot of the younger people that seem to be functionally illiterate, the older people are OK. How do I know? I am 80 years old. Had my birthday – 10/10/10. I still consider myself in full control of my functional abilities.

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Frances writes:

Hello Lugene, congratulations and happy birthday for 10/10/10! My darling Mum ventured onto the internet before I did! She was 74 at the time and is 86 now!

The clarification between anchor text and hyperlinking was very useful as well.

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Jose Lasa writes:

I love this comment for one reason, I never thought I could use anchor text. I will surely use it in my future articles. And one more thing, now I know the difference between both.

Thanks Marc and Blessings.

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Rocky Torres writes:

Excellent tip!

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Emily Sandstrom writes:

So, how does one create these texts?

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Marc, Product Marketing Manager writes:

Emily,

Take a look at this Blog post, specifically topic #4, for an explanation of how to create anchor text links: http://blog.EzineArticles.com/2010/03/html-basics-for-the-expert-author.html

November 1, 2010 at 4:28 PM

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William Post writes:

Got it. Since my articles tend to be short, no anchor text over 3 words.
Amazing how much one can learn from a 2-min video!

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Mike writes:

This clears everything up! I appreciate these 2 minute tips videos. Thanks!

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