PBN anchor text
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safeSEOboost
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You can use any anchor, but usually people prefer exact mach (with variations like partial match, long tail or LSI), just so that you maximize the link juice, as PBN are usually the strongest links you will get, especially homepage PBN.
How long it takes to see movements these days?
I refer people to this page;
https://domainshighway.net/mastering-the-art-of-choosing-your-anchor-text/
Kinda explains it all really.
safeSEOboost
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Great question for a survey? anywhere from few days to few weeks for a strong PBN I would think.
MrFoxyFox
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To be honest, I would say just brandable links... It might sound idiotic, as you are losing a lot of link juice, but Google will start to more and more appreciate Authority sites, not some blackhat sites that are pushed up to make a quick buck. Just my 2 cents.
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From what I have been seeing for the past few years, I really don't think that anchors have much of an effect on SEO. The rule of "strong links exact, weak links brand" is a total crap imo. Benefit from it is minimal and you can easily overoptimize yourself. Risk:reward ratio is catastrophic. Read this for example - https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/how-i-made-500k-organic-visitors-monthly.966269/
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The anchor text should be natural and diversified ( EMD, Brand, Partial match, Naked, Generic, LSI) Don't depend on PBN itself for a good SERP result get links from relevant editorial, guest post & Foundation links.
safeSEOboost
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Yes good point; but here is one reason why you would want to use "strong links exact, weak links brand".
We know (don't we?) google recently has started ignoring weak links, such as spam; this is what some SEO have been writing about, real time penguin, bad links are simply ignored and you do not get penalized for them anymore, etc...something along those lines.
But then where is the red line, how do you know a link is counted or not? You don't. Will PBN links be counted? Depends which, but if you have a strong homepage link from a clean (indexed) domain, why would it not be counted (after all it is a homepage, not an archived page 4 clicks down)?
Hence good (homepage) PBN links are believed to be counted, and we might as well use a targeted anchor. But then you need many other links just to dilute your anchor profile, so you will have to have weaker links, and what anchors to use for these? less important as they may not count, so use URL or brand.
Just my 2 cents.
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Well for this exact reason I would avoid exact ones even more. The low end backlinks, where you rely on anchor diversity may not get counted and your exact ones will. Thus leading to significantly higher ratio of exact and partial match anchors and leading to overoptimization.
safeSEOboost
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Of course you have to build your anchor distribution the correct way, this is why I said:
The main error people are making is to repeat the same anchor over and over, so do NOT repeat anchors, and you will be good to go. This does not mean to use brand unnecessarily.
The main error people are making is to repeat the same anchor over and over, so do NOT repeat anchors, and you will be good to go. This does not mean to use brand unnecessarily.
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Correct, but how many people around here know what they actually do?
Plus, not getting a some boost for getting your exact and partial anchors right as compared to getting stuck at 2nd page without much hope that you will fix your anchors anytime soon, well, that risk:reward is simply not worth it for me.
browserproxies
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For churn and burn method, I'd usually employ 100% exact match anchor for my first campaign, then 200+ (in a spun format), for the second campaign, and just let it rip.
A good parasite would be a good starter, as a good parasite will not matter on the 100% exact match anchor text - the more the merrier and the faster it targets that keyword respectively.
A good parasite would be a good starter, as a good parasite will not matter on the 100% exact match anchor text - the more the merrier and the faster it targets that keyword respectively.
blackbeans
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Focus on branding domains. Exact match domains no longer give you any advantages.
alexzeto
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I feel sad reading this :-(
Anchor text matters A LOT, depending upon the keyword all you need on the first 2-3 months (for new websites) is some (web 2.0, social links ) for link and anchor text diversification, on the third month I send 2 or 3 exact match anchors and easily jump to top 4 withing the next 2-3 months without doing anything else.
PS: Yes you can destroy any website specially new ones if all you do is homepage links with anchor text, but saying that: (anchors have much of an effect on SEO) is not true at all.
Looks like Google already got into you, you are not using homepage links and not using exact match anchors anymore
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I feel sad reading this :-(
Anchor text matters A LOT, depending upon the keyword all you need on the first 2-3 months (for new websites) is some (web 2.0, social links ) for link and anchor text diversification, on the third month I send 2 or 3 exact match anchors and easily jump to top 4 withing the next 2-3 months without doing anything else.
PS: Yes you can destroy any website specially new ones if all you do is homepage links with anchor text, but saying that: (anchors have much of an effect on SEO) is not true at all.
Looks like Google already got into you, you are not using homepage links and not using exact match anchors anymore
I have not been using full homepage nor too many exact anchors (I still use them, but very rarely, keeping it much below 1%) for quite some time now. I sleep better knowing, that I have a bigger chance of surviving the next bigger update.
sathish2493
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You can use any anchor text but it should be in nature.