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Glossary

What is Anchor text?

The clickable words of a link.

In more detail

Natural anchor text is varied and often just a name. Many identical, keyword-heavy anchors pointing at one page can look manufactured.

Example

In the sentence 'read this guide to AEO', the anchor text is 'guide to AEO'.

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