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I would go for text 3 as anchor text, as those are the words you really want to give extra weight.

The title I would then make "widgets from hell". That way you still have keyword proximity for searches "widgets from hell" which might well be more searched for but you also have the extra weighting for the words that google is really giving credit.

Another idea (if this is not in a vastly competitive market or if you have the pr to back it up) is this as a title: "widgets hell. widgets from hell on sale".

You will score for "widgets hell" (plus this matches anchor text), 'hell widgets" and "widgets from hell" (considering proximity and your anchor text). Depending on how competitive this phrase is, you will get top 5 rankings for all three this way, potentially even number 1. Of course you can replace the "on sale" part with something else... cheap, bookings, reservations etc. Or replace widgets plural with widget singular (although google is more and more starting to see plurals and singulars as the same term - so far only with big keywords it seems).

Enjoy

FoxyWeb,
I am sorry you misunderstood me, I already know what my target keywords are, I optimised for those keywords and reached nowhere, so I am thinking may be optimising for something else might get me where I want to be ! The sites that come on top for my target keywords are actually all optimised for that something else ! See my post again for clarification.

Sam, Your Idea is very good, let me try it and see where it gets me, but "widgets hell" is an unlikely phrase and I can see that other webmasters would not like to link to me that way because it does not make gramatical sense, but I will change all my internal links as per your advice, change the title as you say and see where it goes.

I am actually hoping that it is just the glitch that you and Alan mentioned before and all will be right in the next update without having to change anything, but I will try any way, the knowledge this will povide is well worth the experiment ;-)

Like Alan said though, I think it is a glitch...

On the other hand, it is always fun to try and shoot for three target phrases and I have been amazed before that actually phrases not shown in keyword trackers end up being better than those they suggest... good luck!

Sam

Very intresting article and one that gives much to think about

One thing i have notied however is when linking internally, google picks up pages as linking back to my index page when done as relative links such as ../index.html but not when done as a full url with http://www... etc.

Is this normal for google or is it something that i am doing wrong :-? Has anyone else noticed such?