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Anchor Text Diversity & Google Patent Insights

by chris_87
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I know several users here who subscribe to the idea that anchor text diversity is not important, in fact you can look to the SERPs right now for sites in the top spots with over 90% exact anchor text match.

However, I just stumbled upon a post from late last year from seo by the sea. In the article it discusses a patent where google seeks to devalue artificially inflating rankings through links. One of the methods cited includes "anchor text spamming" involving acquiring a large number of pages linking to a particular page using the same anchor text to get that page to rank highly for that text in search results.

hxxp://www.seobythesea.com/2013/11/google-context-of-links-identify-link-spam/
#anchor #diversity #google #insights #patent #text
  • Profile picture of the author godoveryou
    Most of us know that already.
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  • Profile picture of the author Agung305
    i use prefix and postfix on anchor text to get diversity ..
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  • Profile picture of the author Bala27
    Natural Anchor text distribution formula after Google Penguin update

    Extract Match -12%
    Phrase - 13%
    Brand name - 17%
    Branded - 6%
    Keyword branded -12$
    other - 15%
    Url - 25%
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    • Profile picture of the author rahmanpaidar
      Originally Posted by Bala27 View Post

      Natural Anchor text distribution formula after Google Penguin update

      Extract Match -12%
      Phrase - 13%
      Brand name - 17%
      Branded - 6%
      Keyword branded -12$
      Give us some off.
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    • Profile picture of the author Hossain
      Originally Posted by Bala27 View Post

      Natural Anchor text distribution formula after Google Penguin update

      Extract Match -12%
      Phrase - 13%
      Brand name - 17%
      Branded - 6%
      Keyword branded -12$
      other - 15%
      Url - 25%
      Wow, I guess you were one of the geeks who developed Google's search algo! :p
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by Bala27 View Post

    Extract Match -12%
    Is Extract Match where you remove something then add it back?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      It's not about anchor text diversity. Never has been, never will be.

      You cannot control how people link.

      It's all about detecting webspam. BIG difference.

      And it's all about people trying to get arounf webspam filters,
      so it gets nonsensical. Some clown who heard a guy who
      knew a guy who knows a guy said something about google
      cracking down on anchor text. So the clown decides to
      come up with some natural anchor diversity to avoid being
      labeled as webspam. Instead of just stop doing webspam.
      Idiots think they can do webspam still, just diversivy anchor
      text.

      It's not about anchor text. It's about webspam and how to detect
      it.

      Real, normal webmasters don't even give webspam or anchor
      text "diversity" a second thought. Probably leading to the 90%
      thing the OP stated.

      One has to put patents into perspective. It takes years to get
      them. Google has been working on this stuff for 10 years plus.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Dokemion
    Extract it!!
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