Allusions of Grandeur

Written by Carolyn Shelby

SEO Strategy & Growth

I saw Rand in the lounge at the Hilton yesterday at SES and it prompted me to start telling a friend about a link I got from the SEOMoz blog to my blog. Somehow “what anchor text does the link have?” came up and I chuckled and said, “It’s just the word alluded.” So out of curiosity today (just now), I googled the word “alluded” and I rank #6 out of 5,690,000 for it 🙂

SERPs for Alluded

Carolyn Shelby

Carolyn Shelby is an Organic Growth & SEO Strategist with more than 25 years of experience helping enterprise brands, SaaS companies, and media organizations build lasting search visibility. She specializes in technical SEO, AI search adaptation, and strategic growth, and is a frequent industry speaker and a regular contributor to Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Land, and other top digital publications.

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2 thoughts on “Allusions of Grandeur”

  1. … so you spent lots of time optimizing for this term, right? You did all you know… and now it paid off… 😉

    yeah, it is weird how it sometimes works. I think it has to do with freshness of content and the fact that it is on a blog post.

    Just my 2 cents.

    Best,
    Marek

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  2. I think it totally has to do with the anchor text and the fact that the SEOMoz blog is so well-linked/popular. Also, I didn’t do anything… totally random stuff that was just interesting to note. 🙂

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