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Can you have too many anchor Text Backlinks in an Article at GoArticles ? Will GOOG penalize you ??

by discrat
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I have written a couple of dozen Articles at Goarticles.com. I think in all my Articles I have put too many Anchor text backlinks to my Home URL !!

In 300-400 word articles I have put an average of 10 or more anchor text backlinks in the Article. Is this too many ?. Could GoogleBot look at this as over doing it and penalize ??

The reason I ask because in the last 2 months or so my Search Traffic has plummetted. Could doing this have caused a drop in the Serps ? Maybe too many backlinks in one Article ??

And how many is Backlinks to your Website in an 300 -400 word Article is appropriate ??

Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author Jay Deiboldt
    Yea i'd say more than 3 is overkill because it may look like a link farm to Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Originally Posted by SEO.Expert View Post

      It depends on how you are making the links and where you are linking to.

      If you would like me to analyze your website and the article/s you are writing for it, feel free to send me a message with more information.

      I would be willing to review it to see if I can offer advice.

      If I see anything that I think could be a problem I would let you know as well.

      Kind Regards,
      Wow, thankyou so much !!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Long
    Looks like you have a quality offer in the post above me from someone who knows that they're talking about.

    In the meantime, I'll throw in my quick two cents and very general advice.

    Google likes everything to happen naturally. We in the internet marketing business tend to want to force things - especially when it comes to backlinks.

    More often than not, we get penalized because it becomes too obvious that we are doing things that could not possibly happen naturally - like having 10 occurrences of the exact same anchor text in one article.

    If you ever have any doubt about whether or not you are doing something excessive, try to think about how the same thing would happen if it were to occur naturally.

    In this case, a single link, or possibly even a second one with "click here" anchoring the link, is what would often happen if someone was genuinely and naturally linking to you.

    Though most will tell you to NEVER use "click here" as anchor text (with good reason too), the fact remains that much of the web still links this way, and it does have the bonus of varying your anchor text, which is another "natural" way of linking.

    As marketers, our job is to mimic nature, while magnifying it as much as we feel we can to get the results we desire.

    Hope this makes sense, and helps someone out there...

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    • Profile picture of the author discrat
      Originally Posted by Mike Long View Post

      Looks like you have a quality offer in the post above me from someone who knows that they're talking about.

      In the meantime, I'll throw in my quick two cents and very general advice.

      Google likes everything to happen naturally. We in the internet marketing business tend to want to force things - especially when it comes to backlinks.

      More often than not, we get penalized because it becomes too obvious that we are doing things that could not possibly happen naturally - like having 10 occurrences of the exact same anchor text in one article.

      If you ever have any doubt about whether or not you are doing something excessive, try to think about how the same thing would happen if it were to occur naturally.

      In this case, a single link, or possibly even a second one with "click here" anchoring the link, is what would often happen if someone was genuinely and naturally linking to you.

      Though most will tell you to NEVER use "click here" as anchor text (with good reason too), the fact remains that much of the web still links this way, and it does have the bonus of varying your anchor text, which is another "natural" way of linking.

      As marketers, our job is to mimic nature, while magnifying it as much as we feel we can to get the results we desire.

      Hope this makes sense, and helps someone out there...

      ~Mike
      Thanks for the great advice. This makes sense. Btw, not sure if it makes a difference but the 10 anchor text in the one Article are always ALL different. But they lead to only one or 2 of my URLs !!
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  • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
    Would it help if the anchor text links, link back to different sites not all going to the same one?
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  • Profile picture of the author sunnyman
    The gurus tell me there should be no more than 3 links in an article with 300+ words or so. And as said, vary the anchor texts, even have "click here", or the URL, as anchor text. Looks natural...

    Another thing: my personal belief is that Google puts little value in links from a place like Goarticles.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Hoey
    Yes Google will see it as spam.
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