Comments on: Anchor Distribution and Anchor Text Penalties

By: How To Avoid Anchor Text Overuse Penalties, But Still Get Targeted Links

How To Avoid Anchor Text Overuse Penalties, But Still Get Targeted Links — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:35:41 +0000

[...] for certain key terms, it is often the case that a large proportion of their links use those exact terms in the anchor. On the other hand there is trepidation as it is somewhat unclear what the [...]

By: Sohaib Tayyab

Sohaib Tayyab — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:56:48 +0000

Hi’ Tim
Is it important that the keywords used as anchor text variations must have some search volume too or not ?

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:56:40 +0000

Hi Pchef,

Thanks for the input, not much to add to that really, your strategy sounds spot on, keep going.

By: PotatoChef

PotatoChef — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:18:48 +0000

This is what I know about the subject.

I was able to move my site up on Google to page one bouncing between spot 1-4 using two of the most prominent keywords on my site. 99% of the time I had people use the exact anchor text of the keywords when linking to me.

I also built my own links, through article directories, blogrolls, and text links, using the exact anchor text for the keywords. It worked.

On my new site I have graduated to a system very close to what you describe in this post. I now have my main keyword and usually 8 related keywords.
ie…widget
red widget
blue widget
round widget
etc….

When I link I will use “widget” 80% of the time and the related keywords the other 20%. Not only does this vary the anchor text but it also helps you rank for the related terms.