Link More Than Once to a Page if You Like But Apparently its Not Really Doing You Any Good.

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Can't tell how often I have seen private blog networks with the owners linking to the same page twice or more on their network page. I never taught them to do it but even some of my students have insisted it gave them more boost. I never really bought it but like I said some insisted. This applies to any link building really but where else do you really have the control to link twice contextually? (I mean that isn't already seen as spammy)

Anyway as much as you can take google debunking anything Matt Cutts recently said last he knew google ONLY LOOKS AT ONE LINK to a page on any link source. So multiple linking in addition to looking terribly obvious (its own footprint) isn't probably working anyway

Two Links, Different Anchor Text, Same URL: Does it Matter to Google? - SEW
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  • According to the video the last time he checked was 2009.

    I have noticed an increase in rank from link volume off of the same site to the same page on another site but my links get traffic so that may be a factor too.

    More links pointed to the page will send more link juice but if they are the only OBL anyway it wouldnt matter so in my case I believe its the traffic affecting it (I use GA and GWT so G DOES infact know how much traffic I get)
  • I thought that this was already well known throughout the SEO Industry. First link is the more important one, but they both pass the same PageRank because it's essentially diluting them both. It's not more or less, it's exactly the same if I am understanding this correctly.

    The anchor text of the first link was kind of a new piece of information, not too entirely helpful, but a little more informative.
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    • Has nothing to do with this though. It isn't about the first link

      To you perhaps not but to those who run PBNs its a very helpful tip for the many PBNs I see linking more than once to the same page.
    • not everyone knows this..
  • MATT CUTTS:

    "Looking at the original PageRank paper, if you had two links from one page to another page, both links would flow PageRank," Cutts said. "The amount of PageRank gets divided evenly in the original paper between all the outgoing links, "


    More links to the same page the better but anchor text variation doesn't matter at this level
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    • sure but you are losing out on the ranking benefit to the serp you are targeting and making your PBN look unnatural. The aim is ranking not increasing PR.
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  • Alright, let's calm down a little in here.
  • I've been saying this for YEARS. This was a debate way back when, maybe '09?

    Don't put more than one link on a page, and have the first link be the primary anchor text.

    Think about it from Google's point of view, why keep more than one link's anchor text from a page?
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      Why wouldn't Google keep track of all anchor-text, they do for internal links, so why not do the same for external links?

      All 4 Google Sitelinks Cache redirect to the SERP title URL:






      Paste these Sitelink Cache URLs in your browser & look at the Cache URL after the page loads.
      • cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Peugeot#Family
      • cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Peugeot#Education
      • cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Peugeot#Business
      • cache:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Peugeot#Trivia

      Those Google Sitelink anchor-text in the screenshot above are from multiple on-page anchor-text links.
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  • This should be common knowledge to anyone who uses PBNs. But as usual, there is so much misconception in the SEO biz. And so many people teaching SEO stuff that is not true.

    One thing I have come to understand. if Mike Anthony says it, you can take it to the bank.
  • I don't see why Google would count more than one link. They are primarily concerned with backlinks, not out-going links. As far as your own SEO is concerned, they couldn't care less who you link to.

    Let me know if I'm wrong.
  • Sometimes logic eludes people when running networks. Over thinking SEO for their main site, and discarding the SEO and possible earnings to be made from the network site.

    Using too many SEO optimized anchor for the same keyword, on the same page, over and over. Not only makes the page look so unnatural in terms of SEO over-optimization. But also reduces the OBL power of internal links from the network site. Internal links that can be used to piggy back on the power of the main page, and in turn link out to other money sites from the same domain in a natural looking way.

    Just makes no sense. Logically thinking, If I need the same anchor with twice the power of a PR3 link. I would just buy 2 x PR3 domains then.
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    • Pretty much
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    • Banned
      That's just blatant stuffing not really a one size fits all considering everyone doesn't stuff & multiple links per page can be useful for traffic, just depends on the situation/content.

      I think some of the folks around here zone out & get stuck in an SEO is the only thing that exist mentality.
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  • Google gives more weight to the first link they find when the robot scans the page, whether it's to the same url or not. PR is a formula based on the odds that someone will find your link out of the billions of links available. So having more links to the same URL should increase the flow of link juice slightly, but it looks unnatural to Google and I would avoid doing it. (Risk vs Reward)
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    Link More Than Once to a Page if You Like But Apparently its Not Really Doing You Any Good.

    Can't tell how often I have seen private blog networks with the owners linking to the same page twice or more on their network page. I never taught them to do it but even some of my students have insisted it gave them more boost. I never really bought it but like I said some insisted. This applies to any link building really but where else do you really have the control to link twice contextually? (I mean that isn't already seen as spammy) Anyway as much as you can take google debunking anything Matt Cutts recently said last he knew google ONLY LOOKS AT ONE LINK to a page on any link source. So multiple linking in addition to looking terribly obvious (its own footprint) isn't probably working anyway