Ranking a site without exact anchor text

Smeems

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• Jan 8, 2013

• #21

If you don't believe <2%, <5% or even <10% exact anchor text can get you ranking #1 for a high competitive keyword...

...You're looking in the wrong niches.

 

radarsurge

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• Jan 8, 2013

• #22

exact match anchors and family phrase anchors are a must for highly competitive phrases. I consistently build naked, URl, junk anchors to my sites but it doesn't even flinch the SERP.

I have a few small sites I'm gonna try this on though... it makes perfect sense.

 

Bragah

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• Jan 8, 2013

• #23

cocococo said:

Since panda and penguin update have been using this strategy except that I use exact anchor text making 10 - 15 percent of my link profiles and have never had a single penalties.

Where's as your link profile is not as water tight has you think, pm me the sites and I will have a look and tell you what your doing wrong

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My strategy for the test was exactly what OP meant.. Rank without anchor texts.
Don`t worry I`m having no problems with my SEO efforts.. I`m doing a good job... I just wanted to mention that ranking solely without any anchor text is very unlikely.

 

davids355

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• Jan 8, 2013

• #24

Good study, I have seen quite a few keywords lately where the top 3 dont have the keyword in their anchor at all. I have seen this for high competition keywords as well. Good study +REP.

 

Rachmaninoff

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• Jan 9, 2013

• #25

No doubt. It's doable to rank without match anchor text. Thanks for bringing that up.

+rep

 

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ingobauer

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• Jan 9, 2013

• #26

The classic ranking signals: links, authority, keywords, and anchor text - have long remained dominant in Google's search rankings. But in the past few years, we've seen the rise of citations for local rankings, and now, we may be seeing more co-occurence of terms and links in search queries, in text content, and in links becoming more of a factor.

 

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Camouf

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• Feb 24, 2013

• #27

Hi all,

Love to hear more about this topic, any updates or thoughts?

Cheers,
Camouf

 

Jouster

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• Feb 25, 2013

• #28

Yep, it's possible, just having a build up in links will have you naturally ranking for keywords present on the page..

 

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MrGreySEO

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• Mar 6, 2013

• #29

Yep, seems like Google is using some other metric to pass page relevance and ranking juice. I think Matt Cutts alluded to this with his cryptic Christmas Press Release post.