What are "naked backlinks"?

[STPseo]

Hello SEOmozers!

I have a question for you all. What are "naked backlinks"? Can you also give an example?

Thank you!

woo aka STPseo

[STPseo]

good one!

[STPseo]

Hope it is not in bad form to post a possible answer to my own question. I couldn't find a lot of info out there but this is what I gots:

I found something that said a naked link was a link with no anchor text. Well how the heck can someone click on a link with no anchor text!?!?!?!?!!!! So I did a little research using Open Site Explorer and found a few links with no anchor text. For the most part they were images that had a link back to our site. I found some non-image ones but those look like mistakes. I checked out the code and found instances of a link to our site with no anchor text then a link with text like this:

<a href="http://www.sierratradingpost.com">a><a href="http://www.sierratradingpost.com">www.sierratradingpost.coma>who knew!

[Nick_Ker]

Backlinks from adult sites?  Just kidding. That probably refers to a raw URL like http://yoursite.com rather than one with anchor text.