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Anchor Text

The visible, clickable text of a hyperlink — used by search engines to interpret the target page's topic.

Anchor text is the visible, clickable text of a hyperlink. Search engines use anchor text as a signal of the target page's topic. Over-optimization (every internal link to a page using the exact same keyword anchor) used to be effective; in 2026 it's a known spam pattern. Natural, varied anchor text wins.

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