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Anchor URL variation on SEO campaign

by watsonovedades
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Hi warriors

Im creating a SEO campaign for 1 of my sites
I just checked on SEO Spyglass that my backlinks efforts are distributed on several Anchor URL example

I created 1000 backlinks

Anchor URL 1: www.mysite.com = 450 backlinks
Anchor URL 2: http://www.mysite.com = 250 backlinks
Anchor URL 3: www.mysite.com/ = 300 backlinks

Can this affect my ranking efforts?
Will Google see different URLs? on every Anchor URL?

Every advice will be appreciated

Kind regards
#anchor #campaign #seo #url #variation
  • Profile picture of the author Charanjit
    I am pretty sure that google will see them as three different pages and duplicate content might be an issue. I would suggest that next time you make sure that all the links point to one url and that is the same as your home page (ie internal link juice)
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  • Profile picture of the author Softlayone
    You should use 301 redirect rule to point all your URLs to one URL. Here is some basic info: 301 Redirect - How to create Redirects
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  • Profile picture of the author CarlosRubio
    Hi Watson,


    your backlinks are fine, keep it up
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  • Profile picture of the author futurepocket
    If you use Webmaster tools, you can force only one of those URL's... that way, two of those will automatically redirect to the third (of your choice). You can also 301 redirect or use canonical URL's... but honestly, people don't realize that Google is smart enough to realize that www or not, it is the same URL because the destination URL is the same. In fact, keeping that varied should actually leave less of a footprint so you're doing it fine.
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    • Profile picture of the author watsonovedades
      Originally Posted by futurepocket View Post

      If you use Webmaster tools, you can force only one of those URL's... that way, two of those will automatically redirect to the third (of your choice). You can also 301 redirect or use canonical URL's... but honestly, people don't realize that Google is smart enough to realize that www or not, it is the same URL because the destination URL is the same. In fact, keeping that varied should actually leave less of a footprint so you're doing it fine.
      Thanks futurepocket, yes i was thinking that toO
      Google is smarter now and seeing it from the perpective of a natural organic linking , people who recommend your webiste to another person or even in a forum its pretty difficult to just stick to 1 URL

      People will share the URL with different syntaxix

      maybe
      mysite.com
      www.mysite.com

      Google surely has a way to deal with this and not seeign it as duplicate URLs or content

      Thanks for the answers
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    I have to jump in here and correct all the misinformation that's been posted.

    Google will NOT see them as three separate pages and will NOT see them as duplicate content.

    All three URLs are effectively the same and it's actually a good idea to mix up your home page URLs as it looks more natural to Google.
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    • Profile picture of the author rcritchett
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      I have to jump in here and correct all the misinformation that's been posted.

      Google will NOT see them as three separate pages and will NOT see them as duplicate content.

      All three URLs are effectively the same and it's actually a good idea to mix up your home page URLs as it looks more natural to Google.
      I'm gonna have to agree with him
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    Backing up UMS's post.

    They are all regarded as the same page to the search engines.

    I think the other people are getting confused with www vs non-www versions of websites, for example:

    website1.com
    www.website1.com

    In this case you can simply set up a 301 redirect within your hosting account to essentially combine these URLs.

    The anchor text variation is ok, but I would make it more natural.

    Break up each variation with different casing, spacing, and synonyms as well to make the backlink portfolio even more varied.
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  • Profile picture of the author Juvv2096
    Are you raning #1 when googling your site though? IW ouldnt bother doing 1k links without relevant anchor text. Id do like 20% direct domain name URLs like yours and switch up the rest with other LSI and keywords.
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  • Profile picture of the author rosesmark
    Originally Posted by watsonovedades View Post

    Hi warriors

    Im creating a SEO campaign for 1 of my sites
    I just checked on SEO Spyglass that my backlinks efforts are distributed on several Anchor URL example

    I created 1000 backlinks

    Anchor URL 1: www.mysite.com = 450 backlinks
    Anchor URL 2: http://www.mysite.com = 250 backlinks
    Anchor URL 3: www.mysite.com/ = 300 backlinks

    Can this affect my ranking efforts?
    Will Google see different URLs? on every Anchor URL?

    Every advice will be appreciated

    Kind regards
    obviously, Simple you apply redirect code,

    The process is done very simply by adding a few command lines to your .htaccess file as follows:

    To redirect a http://mydomain.com to http://www.mydomain.com:

    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %(HTTP_HOST) ^mydomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    To redirect your http://www.mydomain.com/index.html to http://www.mydomain.com:

    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %(THE_REQUEST) ^[A-Z] {3,9} /.*index.html HTTP/
RewriteRule (.*) index.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
    To redirect your http://www.mydomain.com/index.php to http://www.mydomain.com:

    Code:
    RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %(THE_REQUEST) ^[A-Z] {3,9} /.*index.php HTTP/
RewriteRule (.*) index.php$ /$1 [R=301,L]
    Note: don't forget to replace "mydomain" by your actual domain name.
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