Anchor percentages

azeds

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Jan 17, 2013

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Hey Guys,

Just checked my backlink profile with ahrefs for the first time in a while and I've noticed that a fair few sites were dropped so my anchor text percentages are not what they once were.

Currently my brand name is sitting at 19% and then I have two keywords on 8% and two on 7%.

I've never built links using my brand name, so that percentage is all from other people, but should I dilute these out with generic anchors/other keywords or are the percentages fine?

 

madinina

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Oct 16, 2012

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why would you dilute anchors built naturally? or maybe i'm missing something

 

azeds

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More or less my question was if the percentage of anchors really matters?

 

Final Infinity

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Mar 29, 2014

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That question is quite hard to answer without knowing what the other 66% of anchors are at. Generally I hold it at around 30% for brand name, 10-15% url, 15% url variants and 30% for hard keywords and just 5-10% on generic terms, but this is just how I do it to stay save. This can also vary depending on how hard a keyword is. Hope that helps.

 

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lasertriggersrain

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Apr 20, 2014

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Don't bother about anchor percentages at this stage, ahrefs, majestic and all would give out different metrics anyway. Focus upon obtaining higher quality links.

 

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DexSmart

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It can be high enough now when exact match anchor no longer work.

 

RockstarSEO

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I dont think you need to worry about it. As long as you dont have a higher exact match percentage you can feel safe

 

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kulwinder

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May 19, 2013

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It does matter. You can try to use your name as anchor text or title of the post of mixed keywords.

 

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Arijit-Roul

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It works like that -

40% of main keyword
30% of LSI keyword
15% of URL
15% of general anchor text.