Anchor tag and its Optimization in SEO

 

What is a Tag

A tag is a keyword or term assigned to a piece of information. This is what I have learnt in some books and internet. Now what is the role of these tags here in SEO. Lets explain with an example suppose I want to buy a pen and I went to a store or a shop then I found a beautyful pen there and saw a piece of paper is hanging with it and there its company name and its price is mentioned. That piece of paper is called that tag and that tag is providing me some information about that object. 

<a href="otherpage.htm" title="Anchor Title">Anchor Text</a>

Same here in SEO, Tags are very helpful to providing information about some object. If we will have a knowledge of html then there are some html tags which give you some information about html objects. In this post we will read about one 7 of them but will only discussed 1 and rest in our other post. .

• Title tag
• Meta description tag.
• Header tags. 
• Image alt tags. 
• Nofollow link tags. 
• Links and anchor text tags. 
• Canonical tags
• Anchor tags
• Anchor tag

An anchor tag is an HTML tag it is the one of most basic and most important useful tag. It is used to define the beginning and end of a hypertext link.  Users click on the anchor text to reach the link target. It is very easiest way to connect different pages on text by default when you apply the anchor tag on a text then its color changes. 

What is the anchor tag in HTML?

An anchor is a piece of text which marks the beginning and/or the end of a hypertext link. It   helps the visitor to connect pages and inter linked it.  

Is anchor tag self closing?

<a>Starting one is Opening and ending one is closing tag </a>  anchor tag is a inline element and require proper closing. Anchor tag is mainly used to hyperlink pages with one another or within the page elements.

How do I create an anchor tag?

An anchor is created using the <a> tag. After doing this, you can make a link pointing to the anchor using the normal <a href> tag, like this: Click <a href="url of a web page or a file">here</a> to open a web page

What is an anchor in URL?

Anchor text is the clickable text in a hyperlink. Different browsers will display anchor text differently, and proper use of anchor text can help the page linked to rank for those keywords in search engines.

Here is an example of Anchor tag.

<a href="otherpage.htm" title="Anchor Title">

   <img src="image.gif" alt="keywords" />

</a>