Article + 2 links to the same root domain
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I am writing an article that has 2 links:
The fist one is to : http://xxx.net/the-be... The second one is to : http://xxx.net/ The links are with different ancor texts and I am wondering about the link power they will bring to my website. Will both links count? Will the first one send significantly more PR than the second one ? I am asking this because my MAIN objective is the second link.
Much Thanks Alex
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It was noted in the question will the first link count more than the second and if the anchor text link is above the fold, there is also the higher propensity for someone to click on it and thus more value.
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Even better, link the second to a separate relevant domain...
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Barry is quite right - I assumed these pointed to the same page. Two links to two separate pages on the same domain will both be counted.
Good catch, Barry.
Generally speaking, the links higher to the top of the main content block tend to get more weight, but it's slight. For most intents and purposes, they'll be getting equal weight (not worth fretting over).
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one link is to the ROOT domain and the other one is to a page of that same domain. So the links are not the same.
I've read the article here : http://www.seomoz.org/blog/results-of-google-experimentation-only-the-first-anchor-text-counts but it seems to be talking about something different (2 links to the same page but with different ancor texts)...
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Wait, wait, wait!
First anchor text to the same page is the only one that counts. Two links to the same domain should get both to count unless I'm both reading that wrong and been linking wrong for years
I'd still put what I want to link for most first in the copy but I think the second will still count.
Disagree?
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Happy to help!
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I was searching for that answer online for about 3 hours. Thanks !
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Rand published this blog post, the result of an SEOmoz study on this very topic, a couple of years ago: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/results-of-google-experimentation-only-the-first-anchor-text-counts
By most accounts this approach by Google, only accepting the first anchor text, still prevails.
If your main objective is the second link, you may want to render the first invisible to Googlebot. Otherwise only the first anchor text will factor.
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