2 links on same page /w different anchor text pointing to same site

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dizen

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• Feb 11, 2010

• #1

How do Google see this :

2 links on same page /w different anchor text pointing to the same site, in this case links are on user profile pages

<a href="http://www.widget.com">green widget</a>
<a href="http://www.widget.com">red widget</a>

Will my site rank for both green widget and red widget ?

Thanks

 

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Kid Shaleen

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• Feb 11, 2010

• #2

My understanding is that it will.

Things like that happen all the time on, e.g., academic sites. Some paper will be published. Footnote 7 points to academicmag.com and so do footnotes 19, 84, and 107.

If google or anyone else chopped those references academia would get a whole new search engine.

 

Dangazzm

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Yes it will, link juice is thought to be spread throughout links. So if you have 2 links on a page pointing to another page both will give 50% of their juice away. If there was only 1, however it would get the full effect.

I doubt this is a science to it but still I think it gives you a good concept of how it works.

 

peter2002

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• Feb 11, 2010

• #4

If you want to do this I'd take advantage of deep linking. One link pointing to your home page and one link pointing to an inner page.

 

Abstroose

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• #5

I do just that ^ One link to homepage, and a second to a category page.

 

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niksanyl

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• #6

FWIW . . . According to Dan Thies and Leslie Rohde. . . .

There is such a thing at Google as "first link priority". According to their testing, the 2nd link is ignored.

 

Nick Flame

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the first link gets WAY WAY MORE link juice than the second one.

The second one was believed to be ignored for a long time, but research showed that it actually receives some link juice, very little though.

 

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niksanyl

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• Feb 12, 2010

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Yes. Ignored was probably the wrong choice of words. Given the option, you'd be much better off linking to two different pages.

 

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letusgo

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• Feb 12, 2010

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This question is very interesting!!
Every so-called guru has different opinion.
Here is Bill Slawski's

HTML:

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=2929#comment-208633

Since the search engine is likely listing both appearances of the link, and associated text and anchor text, it might do something more than a simple "first link wins" analysis. For example, it might:

Click to expand...

However, I agree to peter2002, niksanyl and Abstroose, that is best practice in my opinion