I been getting a few good reviews over some of my articles so I thought I would post a comment on link anchorage. There has been alot on anchoring links and text in those SEO emails you get spamed when using a submit tool for your site, personally i would recommend www.ineedhits.com they are one of the oldest SEO companies in the world, and true blue aussie.

Anyway what is anchorage. See when search engine find a tag on your site it will look to find some anchoring that is the name tag.

This gets cross referenced with your meta keywords and if any correlation is found in their comparison language matrix, it gives the link a higher score, then if the link to place has another correlating keyword match, which may not even be something you have listed, it is just a similar search term then you have a higher rank

For example the anchorage for the link i have just shown you would be like

To alter your smart templates to support this is quiet easy if you have for example a title of the page or a component of the title of the page

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would read:



Thats all there is to optimizing XOOPS for a better SEO Score, there are a couple of other factorial, but that will give you a better chance to getting a nice rank..

But it doesn't stop there either, you will have to anchor some text on the links path this is simple an a tag with a name no href associated with it, you may have to set a class to stop hover text..

For example in the modified version of catads I have used at Sydney Escort Lounge [size=xx-small](Warning Adult 18+)[/size] I have altered the smarty templates so there are no drill down HTML links which will lower your score as well as added list boxes with some ajax to replace these.

But not just stopping there, I have anchored my description in both the item page and index. This is for keyword referencing.

For example on the index (not completed) it would be a bit like.




I can also recommend using ineedhits submissions services, they have the exterrestrial embassy in #1 for that keyword, I only used the google g-boost for that..

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what about using the title tag ? will it have the same result as the name tag ?

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can i use both ?

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Yeah i am not sure about the title, everything I have seen in anchoring is giving it a name class so it know what text on the form is related to what link..

What do you mean inappropriate, there is a restricted meta setting, on xoops, it gets used for more than the contents of your mind

Although the tip is much appreciated, please be aware that the provided example link to: Sydney Escort Lounge, from the topicstarter is a link to an adult 18+ website. SO those who are going to click it to see the example should be aware of this.
An included warning (between tags within the topic) would be - in this case- appropriate!

Grtz., Shine

Looks like a useful SEO tip, but I agree with Shine that in the forum, YAXS and sigs you should make it clear if any links lead directly to adult content websites.

OK I have put a warning in and I will change my signature...

Oh come on it is just an experiment to see if you can top XOOPS in the SEO on adult content..

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The name tag is to assign an object class or naming class to a group of tags, you can also populate the title tag but you want to be careful of keyword density (see SEO Tip #2 for ways of fixing this).

See what a name does is assign a group of text an association of an object much the same way you have a class in PHP which is a group of functions.

The name when you put it into a <a> tag will assign it to an object rather than being some vagrant link on a page, this will provide reciprocal linking to the same anchor without a href element in it.

From my quick research and there isn't much on this if you populate the title tag

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The title will be used similarly to a meta keyword with a lower percentile score against it.. But this is something I will have to experiment with.