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Changing Backlink Anchor Text?

by braincandy7
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I have a good selection of backlinks in place for one of my sites but just noticed that some of the anchor text is not ideal.

What is the impact on my sites current SEO if I were to channge the anchor text? Nothing else, just the text.
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  • Profile picture of the author braincandy7
    Thanks for your reply. Not much help but cheers anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author braincandy7
    Nancyjan. Thanks for your reply. It's not checking the backlinks that i am concerned about.

    I need to know what impact changing the anchor text on existing backlinks has on the sites SEO.
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  • Profile picture of the author julianbooth123
    I think you should not change the anchor text of your backlinks unless and until you do not want to optimize that keyword anymore.
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  • Profile picture of the author timpears
    How can you change the anchor text on links you have already placed? Unless your links are on sites that you own of course. The only anchors you can change are those that you are going to place in the future, and that shouldn't matter if you are intending to target different key words than you have been placing links for up till now.

    Unless I misunderstood your question that is.
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  • Profile picture of the author braincandy7
    What about forum signature backlinks? When you change your sig it changes the signatures on all posts.

    Do the links get dropped and need to be re indexed when you change the anchor text or is it as you mention and only the future ones have any effect?
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  • Profile picture of the author owenlee
    For me i will build new backlinks using other new anchor text...

    Im sure those bots will crawl the internet to find your old anchor text...if they cant find it, your old backlinks might be drop...
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  • Profile picture of the author cyriljeet
    u are taking about placing urls with signature links and after some time change the keywords of these urls.this is not a good idea for ranking as well as link juice both.
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  • Profile picture of the author AndyBlackSEO
    Yes, of course you can change them to something more relevant. Google will pick these changes up. I certainly don't think this will have any negative impact on your site or rankings.

    In fact... I'm thinking of editing this particular feature in one of my products. As in, the ability to change the anchor text or URL.
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  • Profile picture of the author C Rebecca
    Well, I believe... Changing a few anchor text won't have that much big affect which can break your rankings.

    Moreover, they are not ideal anchor texts... SO, I would advise you to change them.
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  • Profile picture of the author outwest
    I dont know that it would have much negative effect
    heck i had a forum sig link which showed 100s of sig links all from the same domain
    i went back in removed it so those links disappeared
    didnt affect my resort site rankings
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