Anchor Text Usage
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Hi, I have used anchor text more heavily. I built over 80 links so far, all are quality links like press releases & social bookmarks. I used to be ranking on #7 page for my keywords, then all of sudden i am not even on 50th page. Is this is because of Anchor text usage? Now should i remove those links or dilute my anchor texts by getting more links with different anchor texts. This is because the keyword i am targetting is pretty tough. So i think 80 links is not good enough. Let me know your thoughts.
Here is the screenshot of the links i got so far which i think valuable. And the rest are social bookmarks.
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Well if you have all your anchor text going to a head term and not the brand, that is a red flag. So yes anchor text diversity does help reduce it by getting more links. But it is not all about volume. It is about quality.
What is the site you are trying to link build for? What industry or what does it have on it? It will give me a better idea of some suggestions.
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Ya, thanks for your suggestions. I did using pivot pie charts, and i can see my focused anchor text has few no.of higher links than other anchor texts. Does diluting anchor text using getting more links will helps me?
And btw, what other link building strategies do you suggest as you said, so far what i've done are crap.
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Judging by what you said here "Yes, my focused anchor text has more links than other, but i've done very few links so far, like 10 bookmarks, 2 directories, 3 press releases, and a few article submissions. So far all the links are with DA 80+."
That is not good link building really. Its crap. yes they may have high DA but its directories. Whatever your niche is, you need to get good resources to link to you not directories. What I would do not only for yourself but your competitors is run an anchor text diversity report here and there to keep an eye on it. You can do this by exporting your 301+followed to root domain into excel and than doing a pivot pie chart to keep an eye on this.
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Hi,
Yes i've researched the ahrefs, and here is the result.
http://screencast.com/t/TKiFNma7jctc
Yes, my focused anchor text has more links than other, but i've done very few links so far, like 10 bookmarks, 2 directories, 3 press releases, and a few article submissions. So far all the links are with DA 80+.
Even, my focused anchor text got a few links like 8 as shown in the ahref's report. So should i go for diluting my anchor text like getting more guest posts with other broad match or natural looking anchor text?
I have researched in opensitexpolorer, but my site is 1 month old, i dont have any index built in opensitexplorer, but i am sure all the links will have DA greater number.
And no, i haven't got any unnatural link warnings in my Google's webmasters central. And no, i dont have any huge links from same domain pointing to my site.
Here are the links screenshot in my Google's webmasters central.
http://screencast.com/t/d1Bv0abAl
Ya, i am bit high in my anchor text distribution as i can see in majestic seo. But as i said, i've got very few links so far. So should i dilute the anchor text? Will it be helpful?
And i've got about 700 twitter backlinks also, and fb likes too. I am in social media too. Now, only thing left is guest posting for me. I will try that. But before, am i under penguin penality?
Thanks for helping me.
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Judging by the links in the screenshot you attached alone, you've most likely been penalised for building too many exact match text links from junk sites. I note you said you think those links are valuable, but all I can see is free-for-alls like hubpages, squidoo and junky article sites.
In my opinion you're probably going to need to clean these up (remove them) or start fresh and focus on higher quality link building. Good luck.
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Vegitt, you should consider the Penguin update when building links.
Please take the following steps:
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Enter your URL in Ahrefs.com and scroll down to "Referring domains for anchor phrases". Can you see your focused anchor text rated much higher than other natural keywords?
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Go to SeoMoz's OpenSiteExplorer. Research your links and scroll down to the links with the lowest Domain Authority. Are most of your links coming out of domains with low authority? (20 and down).
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Go to Google' Webmaster tools. Go to health-Links to your site. Can you see a huge amount of links from the same domain pointing at you?
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Do you have a Google notification in your WMT account saying that you have an unnatural links profile?
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Research your website with majesticSEO. go to "anchor text" and see if you pushed too hard on the same keywords.
If you answered YES to one or more of these questions, then you probably have been hit by Google Penguin.
Reach out to any low quality site that links to you and have it taken off.
Don't build Social bookmark links, they aren't a way of influencing your rankings.
Also, PRWEB doesn't count a good link for SEO because the entire world is polluting it with off page SEO.
Act more natural, use Social media to drive traffic and create unique content.
Read through seoMOZ's SEO guide to learn more.
Regarding your negative links, try sending Google a re-consideration letter once you got the nasty links removed.
Good luck
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