By anchoring the position of a boat is fixed
The notion of anchoring has several uses depending on the context. The term refers to the act and result of anchoring : fixing something to the surface or another place, determining the value of a service or a product.
In navigation
It is common for the concept of anchoring to appear in the field of navigation . When anchoring a boat, its anchoring is carried out. In this case, anchoring involves securing the ship thanks to the anchor , which is a metal device with hooks that is attached to a chain. When the anchor is dropped into the water, this instrument sinks due to its weight and its hooks dig into the bed, holding the ship to which it is attached by the chain.
The Royal Spanish Academy ( RAE ), in its dictionary, indicates that anchorage can also be used as a synonym for anchorage . An anchorage, in turn, is a place that has the number of meters of depth necessary for a boat to be able to anchor (that is, to drop anchors so that they sink into the bottom).
A port tribute
Anchorage, on the other hand, refers to the tribute that a port charged to allow ships to anchor in it. Anchoring used to be applied in Spanish ports.
That ship that intended to anchor in certain ports, therefore, had to pay for that right . The port even charged if the ship did not disembark merchandise or if it was forced to anchor due to a storm.
Price anchor
The RAE , finally, recognizes another use of anchoring that is frequent in Argentina and that is associated with the setting of the price of a service or good.
Anchor text
In the Internet, the part of a document that acts as a hyperlink between two contents is known as anchor text . It can also be called a link , since it relates two points, which may or may not be on the same page. To activate this element it is necessary to "touch" it: if we are using a computer, we must click on it; From a device with a touch screen, however, all you have to do is place your finger on it.
It is part of the HTML language, and is recognized by its tags and , which must enclose the content to be linked. It is worth mentioning that although we talk about anchor text , these tags can be placed around another type of content, such as an image, and offer the same result: getting it to become a link to another page or another part of the current one. . In the first one, which is called opening , we must also specify the destination using the href property.
Anchor text is essential on the Internet
If the hyperlink points to another document, we must specify its full address, such as "https://www.dominio.com/documento-destino.html" . If, however, we want to link the anchor text to another part of the current document, an extra step is necessary: first, we must give the target element a unique name using its id property; Next, in href we must write it adding the pound symbol in front (if it were "beginning", it would become "#beginning").
The usefulness of anchor text does not simply end in the link of two elements or pages, but in the best of cases it can enhance the performance of a website , increasing visits and, therefore, income. However, it is not enough to use it nor is it recommended to use it in excess, but there must be a balance between the so-called incoming links (those found in external sources and pointing to our pages) and internal links (which relate the different parts of our website). place).