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Definition

Anchor text is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink that signals to search engines and AI systems the topic and relevance of the linked destination page. Descriptive anchor text — using the target page’s entity name or topic — communicates stronger relevance signals than generic text like “click here.” Anchor text contributes to entity association signals. When authoritative pages link to a brand using its entity name or category descriptor, those co-occurring link signals reinforce the brand’s topic associations in AI knowledge systems. For internal linking, using entity-explicit anchor text — linking to a glossary entry using the term name, linking to a service page using the service name — builds clear semantic relationships between pages that AI systems can follow.

Internal linking

Link equity

Entity co-occurrence

Co-citation

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