Truth about anchor text post-penguin?

ryannull · Aug 8, 2012

assphuck said:
My best performing sites, which have survived Panda, Penguin and manual unnatural link warnings, all heavily utilized the primary keyword(s) in the anchors. However, I'm exceeding 200-300 exact match keyword variants to achieve these results. It works extremely well when combined with good onpage SEO.

I am seeing this as well.

I think one of the biggest misconception surrounding Google's over optimization is the exact match anchor text. So, everyone is scrambling to dilute their exact match anchor text with generic. In a sense, is a good idea to make it more natural, but not as necessary as most may think.

I think Google's agenda is to stop webmasters from targeting a few keywords in their anchors. It's not natural if you have 10,000 links and only using a few keywords for anchor text. If you have hundreds of keyword variations you should be fine.

I personally use as many keyword variations I can think of, raw urls and some generic. I try not to use "click here", it is a dead giveaway.

Bestbuyfoam · Aug 8, 2012

Subscribed!!! I am going to keep an eye on your thread lots of good tips here.

Thanks.

cloakme · Aug 31, 2012

Hey bud, click here is not a dead giveaway in my opinion. Have you ever put this on your own site? Have you ever seen this on someone elses website? Of course, in the tens if not hundreds of thousands. Diversity is the key along with using your keyword making it longer like assphuck has said. I am trying an experiment as we speak with and EMD domain that I am not even using the keyword (EMD Name) in any of my backlinks. Time will tell but I think if the site starts getting authority from Google it will naturally move up in the serps itself for that keyword. I will keep everybody posted.

ryannull said:
I am seeing this as well.

I think one of the biggest misconception surrounding Google's over optimization is the exact match anchor text. So, everyone is scrambling to dilute their exact match anchor text with generic. In a sense, is a good idea to make it more natural, but not as necessary as most may think.

I think Google's agenda is to stop webmasters from targeting a few keywords in their anchors. It's not natural if you have 10,000 links and only using a few keywords for anchor text. If you have hundreds of keyword variations you should be fine.

I personally use as many keyword variations I can think of, raw urls and some generic. I try not to use "click here", it is a dead giveaway.

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