Anchor Text Observation

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I'd appreciate other warriors experience on anchor text post penguin. It seems to me that using anchor text as method to rank a specific keyword isn't working anything like it used to.

I've created a bunch of web 2's, added hand written unique content, changed themes, added natural handmade details, varied the anchor text, made brand and naked URL's high ratio's within the backlink profile, added plenty of generic anchor text like 'click here' and still ranking is very slow and difficult. It used to be easy!!

Now this might be because the web 2's are new and don't have much content? or it may be that google just doesn't trust anchor text anymore? or it may be that google only trusts anchor text from sites with a certain level of age / authority?

Whatever is going on, creating a bunch of decent web's two with anchor text just isn't working from what i can see.

What do you think?
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  • Profile picture of the author mmickeals
    Are the web 2's your only backlinking plan? Are you juicing these links? Without adding some juice to them, they are practically worthless. They will all be Pr 0 at best, if they are even indexed by the search engine. You need to send more link juice through your tier 1 links. I will have hundreds to thousands of links pointing to each tier 1 link. And hundreds to thousands to each of those links. And hundreds to thousands to each of those links. Not to mention the extra link juice I point at each of these lower tiers.

    With that many links, you are obviously not going to be hand building them. But there are some powerful options on the market. You may want to look into GSA SER. This program is a small one time fee, is constantly updated, gives you a great deal of control over the backlinks it creates, and can be set to grow constantly over time.
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    • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
      Thanks for the reply. The web 2's are indexed but don't have many backlinks of their own which could well be the problem.

      The trouble is I try and stay away from spun content which makes creating lots of tiered links slow going.

      Maybe I just need to be patient and grow the properties slowly and gently.
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      • Profile picture of the author mmickeals
        I will be brutally honest. If you are totally against using spun content for your lower tiers, then depending on web 2.0's for your main link juice will lead you to weeks/months/years of toil and frustration. However, there is hope for you. This is not the only style of effective linkbuilding.

        Start setting aside a budget to grow your own private network of blogs with pr. There are several great tutorials on how to do this on warriorforum. This way instead of creating a web 2.0 that is useless, you are creating a link that has some real power. It costs money, but you will never, repeat, never ever ever get anywhere if you are just using web 2.0's with original content as your only backlinking plan.
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        • Profile picture of the author antonrodin
          Originally Posted by mmickeals View Post

          I will be brutally honest. If you are totally against using spun content for your lower tiers, then depending on web 2.0's for your main link juice will lead you to weeks/months/years of toil and frustration. However, there is hope for you. This is not the only style of effective linkbuilding.

          Start setting aside a budget to grow your own private network of blogs with pr. There are several great tutorials on how to do this on warriorforum. This way instead of creating a web 2.0 that is useless, you are creating a link that has some real power. It costs money, but you will never, repeat, never ever ever get anywhere if you are just using web 2.0's with original content as your only backlinking plan.
          Hi. Where I can find those tuts? I'm little bit new to Warior Forum is my first post I am from spain I would to build my own spanish private network.

          ¡Thx!
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        • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
          Originally Posted by mmickeals View Post

          I will be brutally honest. If you are totally against using spun content for your lower tiers, then depending on web 2.0's for your main link juice will lead you to weeks/months/years of toil and frustration. However, there is hope for you. This is not the only style of effective linkbuilding.

          Start setting aside a budget to grow your own private network of blogs with pr. There are several great tutorials on how to do this on warriorforum. This way instead of creating a web 2.0 that is useless, you are creating a link that has some real power. It costs money, but you will never, repeat, never ever ever get anywhere if you are just using web 2.0's with original content as your only backlinking plan.
          Thanks for the help although i'm not sure I totally agree with you - I work with a few blogs that have page rank 3/4 with less than 30 backlinks and they appear to pass decent juice.

          Sure if you're totally relying on spun content to new web 2's or Wiki's then you need more but it's possible to get links on established sites that pass decent juice reducing the number of links needed.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    These are time wasting tactics. You would be better off getting 10 or so higher quality backlinks with slight anchor text variation and go from there.
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  • Profile picture of the author PerformanceMan
    The big problem with spun content is it gets deindexed. Sure it might get in initially. But after some time has passed Google tends to drop the spun page and your links. This also puts you in a position of decreasing link velocity. As time goes on you have lots of links falling off meaning you have to keep adding more! You become a link junky always looking for your next fix.

    If you put a link on a nice PR4 page your work is done. It stays there and passes juice from day one. As soon as Google recrawls the page they find and count your link. This means your efforts will be rewarded 1) Faster and 2) long term. Screwing around with all those PR NA pages ends in heartbreak
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    • Profile picture of the author scottmacair
      Originally Posted by PerformanceMan View Post

      The big problem with spun content is it gets deindexed. Sure it might get in initially. But after some time has passed Google tends to drop the spun page and your links. This also puts you in a position of decreasing link velocity. As time goes on you have lots of links falling off meaning you have to keep adding more! You become a link junky always looking for your next fix.

      If you put a link on a nice PR4 page your work is done. It stays there and passes juice from day one. As soon as Google recrawls the page they find and count your link. This means your efforts will be rewarded 1) Faster and 2) long term. Screwing around with all those PR NA pages ends in heartbreak
      I 100% agree with this. Just my view but I don't think spun content is a long term solution. Google are getting better at detecting it and if a competitor sees that junk in your profile they can easily report it as spam to google. It's basically a huge red flag.

      I'd rather grow my properties naturally by finding decent links from decent sites. If it takes a bit longer then i'm fine with that because I'm sure spun content wont work for long if it still works at all.
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