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What anchor text to use when building backlinks to your backlinks?

by deanmoney
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For example lets say I have a guitar site and I want to rank for the keyword "learn how to play guitar". With the current google changes it seems google wants 50% of your backlinks to not "learn how to play guitar" in any way. They want url variations, site name variations, and words like "click here".

Now my question is lets says my first layer all pointing to my "money site" has has these anchor text variations. Now if I want the second layer to be 100% forum profile links pointing to my 200-300 backlinks what should that anchor text be? Should I use "how to play guitar" even if 50% have just my url/click here's?

I don't see anyone talking about what anchor text of backlinks should look like which is why I ask. And I want to build backlinks to these 200-300 links because google will not index/count/or even find a backlink if its not linked to. Thanks for any help on this matter.
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  • Profile picture of the author adam337
    You should not use your keyword for the second layer. You click here,see more or url.
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    • Profile picture of the author deanmoney
      Originally Posted by adam337 View Post

      You should not use your keyword for the second layer. You click here,see more or url.
      How will google see the links pointing to my site as relevant if the tier above it has words link "click here"? And when going up a level the keyword it not 100% the same. Its now just 4 words long ""how to play guitar" minus the learn.
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  • Profile picture of the author markhere
    Here is what I would do: goto Keyword suggestion tool — Google suggest scraper — Übersuggest and get a list of keywords using the main keyword and use it for 2nd tier backlinks
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  • Profile picture of the author tylerherman
    Originally Posted by deanmoney View Post

    For example lets say I have a guitar site and I want to rank for the keyword "learn how to play guitar". With the current google changes it seems google wants 50% of your backlinks to not "learn how to play guitar" in any way. They want url variations, site name variations, and words like "click here".

    Now my question is lets says my first layer all pointing to my "money site" has has these anchor text variations. Now if I want the second layer to be 100% forum profile links pointing to my 200-300 backlinks what should that anchor text be? Should I use "how to play guitar" even if 50% have just my url/click here's?

    I don't see anyone talking about what anchor text of backlinks should look like which is why I ask. And I want to build backlinks to these 200-300 links because google will not index/count/or even find a backlink if its not linked to. Thanks for any help on this matter.
    Google doesn't want 50% of your links to be "learn to play guitar" they want 100% of your links to be whatever makes sense for the content. It could be that Google detects anchor text patterns or it could be they simply see the huge number of links you are building are total garbage.

    I know it is a crazy concept but why don't you just build links that Google does find. You know, the quality ones.

    You'd be surprised to find that 10-15 quality links > 10,000 spammed crap links.
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    • Profile picture of the author deanmoney
      Originally Posted by tylerherman View Post

      Google doesn't want 50% of your links to be "learn to play guitar" they want 100% of your links to be whatever makes sense for the content. It could be that Google detects anchor text patterns or it could be they simply see the huge number of links you are building are total garbage.

      I know it is a crazy concept but why don't you just build links that Google does find. You know, the quality ones.

      You'd be surprised to find that 10-15 quality links > 10,000 spammed crap links.
      I did read up on the last update and google wants 50% to be what I said. I also meant the other 50% should be something like "learn to play guitar" ex: learning to play guitar, play guitar online or something with the word guitar.

      Any advice on what the anchor text should be on the second level so google finds my backlinks pointing to my site? Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author deanmoney
    Anyone else have any advise on this matter? Thanks
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