You may have heard that Google does not count links equally and that Google can in fact ignore links completely. Google even can refuse to pass PageRank.
What does this mean exactly?
To put it simply, Google has a built-in spam filter, and if any form of web content seems thin, weak, spammy and not unique, then any links from that web content will basically not count.
So if you have written an article which contains links with keyword optimized anchor...