Anchor Texts on Internal Links on my Site Question

[irvingw]

[Hey folks,

Anchor text question for internal links on my site. We all know that proper anchor text is important for rankings, both in links pointing to your site and links on your site. Google webmaster tools is showing my top internal anchor text links to be letters. This is because of navigation on the site which is in a global footer on hundreds of thousands of pages.

Do you think that this dilutes or minimizes the relevance of the real anchor texts that we are targeting which trail behind these, or if this went away it would have no effect on the rest of the anchor texts on the site. How would you handle this, we can just get rid of this navigation because it's passing PR and helping the pages get spidered.

Thanks in advance.

Anchor text

1.     g

2.     q

3.     d

4.     v

5.     k

6.     t

7.     o

8.     u

9.     a

10.   p

11.   m

12.   r

13.   e

14.   x

15.   y

16.   l

17.   i

18.   z

19.   c

20.   j

21.   s

22.   b

23.   f

24.   h

25.   w

26.   n](mailto:acaldarea@hotmail.com)

[Dan-Petrovic]

External anchor text (in combination with your content) would iron any misconceptions Google may get from internal link anchor text. Internal anchor text is of course a significant hint but I think you are safe and this is why... Google treats boilerplate and navigational elements with less editorial value (footer, navigation, sidebars) so if your article/content based anchor text is correct you will end up with those single letter links simply passing link juice around and editorial links passing meaningful tips to Google about your content.

This behaviour was confirmed by Matt Cutts in one of his recent videos on YouTube.