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I get it, a truly authoritative source will not be able to control the exact anchor text that others link to it with. Google is trying to deliver the most authoritative source, so non-exact anchor text is more likely a good option for them.

This makes total sense and I have been varying the anchor text of my blog posts.

But this begs the question: How am I supposed to know I am increasing my rankings for the high volume key words in my industry, and not leaving it up to Google to decide which keywords are most important?

Hello everyone,

I got hit with an algorithm penalty and need to start removing old backlinks ASAP.

1. Does anyone have any good resources on how best to ask webmasters for removal?

2. Are there any other ways to remove bad back links besides the disavow tool? (An SEO consultant I talked to said that they had a proprietary software that can remove them - is that possible?)

Thanks all,