Analyzing The Anchor Text Backlink Penalty Threshold

by Neville Pettersson

Posted: 14 years ago 4 replies

I'm looking to find out what the anchor text threshold is that Google is using to penalize sites.

I have a mixture of sites that were hit (most) and a few pages that still rank. On-page is almost identical, apart from the content of course.

Anyway, what I want to know is if there is any tools I can use to analyze a list of backlinks to find out what the anchor text ratio is for each backlink?

If I use the backlink data right from my WMT then that would give me the exact backlinks G is using.

I have over 70 sites so this data would be very useful (hopefully), and I'd be happy to share it once I'm done, for free here of course.

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cooler1

14 years ago

www.opensiteexplorer.org lets you analyze the backlink anchor text ratio.

I think the volume of links also plays a key part. I have a site which survived Penguin and it uses almost 100% of the anchor text targetting the primary keyword of the site, but the site only has about a dozen links.

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Neville Pettersson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by cooler1

Thanks for your reply. I had a look at open site explorer and it doesn't seem to me to work my list of backlinks. I want something which can analyze a txt file or csv file of backlinks.

You may be right about the volume, however my rankings were solid for a long time before. I'm interested in finding out what ratio of exact match anchor text is bad in Google's eyes.

Thanks

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ellenpage

14 years ago

I think this article can help you .
7 Achievable Steps For Great SEO After The Penguin Update | SEOmoz

Ahrefs - Backlinks & SERPs Research Tool

Majestic SEO : Site Explorer

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Neville Pettersson

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ellenpage

I think this article can help you .
7 Achievable Steps For Great SEO After The Penguin Update | SEOmoz

Ahrefs - Backlinks & SERPs Research Tool

Majestic SEO : Site Explorer

Thanks Ellen, I see that SEOmoz say that 60% is the "likely" threshold, but I'd like to do the test myself. I'm sure each site/niche will be different.

The tools you recommend don't quite do what is required. They both use their own backlink data. I need something which can analyze a list of backlinks that I get from Google. Majestic etc use their own index to get backlinks.

Where to from here?
Can scrapebox do this job?

Thanks

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