What is the correct anchor diversity?

[davids355]

Because that answer can be applied to your question too.

But if you want a more conclusive answer, there are two:

1. TEST - nothing works better than what works for you.
2. IT VARIES - depending on the site/niche/competition, you may get away with more fishy stuff than you would otherwise. Or you may be on a way shorter leash than you would normally. Which brings us back to answer #1.

Haha, I was just trying to be smart arse
Yea that makes sense, I guess the general rule here is, as others said, check what the top 5 do and base it on that.
Which makes sense because its never good to stand out like a sore thumb in the SERPS.

I'm going to check with ahrefs tomorrow for a particular keyword I'm working on.

 

[ritesh]

Ok this is what i have been doing.
For high PR sources-Web2.0/articles/******** wiki/guest posts- Direct Anchor
For High PR ******** Comments - LSI kw
For generic- PAD submit/PR/other contextual sources

Don't loose link juice from higher PR contextual sources.

I don't care about the percentage.Because noone knows whats the exact but we just know not to over do it.

 

[SEORasta]

There is nothing in stone but what has worked for me is the following.

1 KW = 3 LSI or 3 Generics
so if you are doing a campaign with 2 of your main keywords then have 6 generics or 6 lsi or mix it up to 6.

Also with sites that have been hit from the exact anchor match I have run campaigns with ONLY generics for about 2 months straight and brought all my kw out from the top 100 to back within searches. Did not make page 1 but got the KW from page 2 to 7. So there is hope still out there but it wont be overnight.

 

[CloneX]

The best anchor diversity comes when you stop caring about anchor diversity. This about which anchor + link combination will entice users to click through/buy/do something.

To those who posted %es above, I'd like to know how they came up with the numbers. Solid case studies, proves, screenshots would be great.

 

[davids355]

The best anchor diversity comes when you stop caring about anchor diversity. This about which anchor + link combination will entice users to click through/buy/do something.

To those who posted %es above, I'd like to know how they came up with the numbers. Solid case studies, proves, screenshots would be great.

True, but basically I'm targeting 1 keyword, so I buy 50 guest posts for example, I need to add in some diversity to anchors, so I need a percentage to work with.

From my own experience and from the above, I'm going with around 20% direct anchor.

I know some time back there was someone who done a study on this - they worked with someone, maybe ahrefs and got figures from a segment of sites - authority sites, top Alex's sites etc, and they had some studied percentages, but can't remember the link.

Anyway, it's an interesting topic to me

 

[lakim0]

Don't use more than 20% of kw's in anchors and it'll be alright.

 

[CloneX]

True, but basically I'm targeting 1 keyword, so I buy 50 guest posts for example, I need to add in some diversity to anchors, so I need a percentage to work with.

From my own experience and from the above, I'm going with around 20% direct anchor.

I know some time back there was someone who done a study on this - they worked with someone, maybe ahrefs and got figures from a segment of sites - authority sites, top Alex's sites etc, and they had some studied percentages, but can't remember the link.

Anyway, it's an interesting topic to me

If you have an authority site, don't even bother about anchor. If the site is very new, then maybe a little.

But again, work with anchors that will create context for search engines and users (mainly users).

 

[davids355]

Good job I checked: This particular site I am working on, I checked the top 4 results (I am #5) for the main keyword, and none of the sites have it in their anchor at all.

This is a low competition keyword, but I have had quite a bit of trouble ranking for it. Perhaps that is because I've stood out in the results for being over optimized??

 

[feyt333]

thanks for informative post

 

[SdkulkarniB]

20 - 30 links from each Social Network, Web 2.0 sites, youtube and some social bookmarks.