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Erica, I appreciate the response but I have another question that maybe you can answer. Lets say my URL is www.houserestoration.com and I have 100 directories with the anchor text "House Restoration" in the body of the article.

It appears that with this consistent anchor text I have dropped in the rankings so I assume this has affected me negatively. So I want to make some changes, so now I go into directories and I insert "house" as an anchor text link to my url and in another article I put the anchor text as "restoration".

In another separate article I will put "house" anchor text in one paragraph and in the same article a few paragraphs down I'll put "restoration" as an anchor text.

In your opinion is this mixing it up enough or does it have to be different anchor texts like "housing repairs" or "household restoring techniques"?

I also tend to think that just putting an anchor text like "old house" or "living quarters" is not specific enough to help the url / term I am trying to boost.

So in your opinion what other anchor text words would you use? Also is there anyone else with extensive knowledge about this topic that can help us figure out the best direction to go with this?

I appreciate the information but I would still like the other question to be answered if possible.

If we go into these articles and change the anchor texts, will the search engines recognize this change and give us credit for the new varied anchor text or will the credit stay with the original anchor text the article was posted with?

- Thankyou.

Hello SEOMOZ,

I have a couple of questions that I am hoping you all can answer for me.

1. We have heard that having anchor text links in article directories that are identical actually hurts our rankings and is considered spam at this point. We have hundreds of articles posted to various article directories throughout the web with this consistent identical anchor text.  If we go into these articles and change the anchor texts, will the search engines recognize this change and give us credit for the new varied anchor text or will the credit stay with the original anchor text the article was posted with?

2. From here on out if we write unique stories with different anchor texts pointing to our website pages is their any gain to it and additionally will this even out our link profile? Or are placing anchor text links in article directories not the way to go?

We have aged domains that have had unique ips for some time. Batch 1 average 2 years old and are in 1st to 5th place in their rankings. Batch 2 are 8 months old and not ranking at all. Will there be any issues associated with moving them all to a reseller account with a single ip address?

In addition batch 1 that has good rankings with unique ips is there ever a possibility they will change our ips without notice or for any reason at all that will change and or fluctuate our rankings?

Because the engines ignore the link juice completely. You won't move up in rankings at all.

MailChimp is whats up. Its free for the first 2500 subscribers. Can't beat there statistics either. They are legit.

So you want to rank for the word OR?

Or.... Vente d'or sur internet

Because thats what your title says.

I think the best way is still to basically CLOAK the url with your own sub.domain forward. If you are using wordpress I know there are plugins that do it very well. If your just using regular website coding then use a service like tinyurl.com. OH and only link to related affiliate offers.

Exactly! Things like cheap wine, cigars etc are all good ways.

Do it! Do it!

In Short... YES.

But its an easy fix. Just use the google webmaster tools http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=44231 preferred domain. That should fix the issue for you

Hey man, email me at shannonlilly@rocketmail.com I have a link building technique I would love to share with you privately.

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I ran the report on my site and it says what I am primarily missing is domain linking....

What is this? it says I only have 3 of them for the specific term / subpage I am going after.

In addition what does Linking Root Domains mean in my report?

Thanks much!

A facebook page allows you to list your own content on the page. Facebook place allows you to actually mark down your location of business storefronts so people can check into it.

Thats the only difference.

Just use the other seomoz tools to find links.

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-finder/index.php

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-intersect

Its really easy to find links your competitors are already using that are working, once you have the list of links to go after the best ones by using the seomoz toolbar to find out which sites have the best authority.

Hope that helps.

I have not heard that it is necessary to host your site on a server from the country you want to rank better in... But regardless I think a us host is just fine.

I think the better thing to ask is why do you need non-related links?

There are tons of link opportunities for every niche for free one way links.