If you dedicate a daily effort to obtain one way links to your website with keyword based anchor text links, DON’T! You are hurting your SERP. Google filters will measure your links and if they have keywords in the anchor text they will be devaluated. This might be part of the latest updates in Google. It might be possible for you to insert a few links with variations in your keywords but the effect remains to be seen.
This is once again another effort by Google in order to have websites building natural links. The other night I spent 35 minutes posting comments in “doFollow” blogs and posting a couple of articles here and there using the keywords “Miami Web Design”. The next day, our position in Google dropped down about 7 spaces. This has happened to us 3 times already. However, then we took the next step and worked ourselves a few comments using for anchor text just the name of our company (brand) in “doFollow” blogs as well as “noFollow” blogs and to our surprise our listing came back to its original position.
Here is our analysis
Everything nowadays with Google revolves around the word “Natural”. If you pay for links, this is considered a shortcut and a very harmful action if I may say; it is actually one of the worse ideas. If you comment on blogs leaving keyword based links (inside the anchor text), once again you are buying yourself prosperity without really proving that your website is genuine and provides good content. If you publish articles well, that is a different story since it is an honest action and it demonstrates your efforts to provide a helpful resource for your customers. So what is the ideal candidate to give good PageRank? The ideal candidate is the one who unconditionally comments on blogs and by unconditionally I mean that you are contributing to a conversation in a blog and since you do not expect anything from it you are not leaving your keyword based link.
Regardless of how grandiose Google is, it is still a piece of software; you can look at it the way you want to. Of course Google was, and is raised by a number of very talented and intelligent people but it is still a software and there are always corners to go around every software. Mix it up! Every time you work on your backlinks use your brand name instead of a keyword and for every “doFollow” link you accomplish sacrifice yourself and obtain two “noFollow” links. Keep Google on the doubt instead of confirming that all you want is the PageRank by just adding keyword based anchor links in “doFollow” scenarios.
Links , links , links. Thanks for the info on back links,i just wish i had some one to teach me hands on. What about anchor text back links? Can you blog again strictly about this? I have 2000+ links to my site in Google webmaster tools and none are anchor text links – at least i don`t think so because i`ve checked with a backlink anchor text link checker and it returned a big “0”.
Thanks , Have a Great Day.
Also, since Google just released their mod_pagespeed for Apache and are working with Contendo for CMS plugins to extend this capability, it’s obvious that site load speed is a major factor in SERP rankings now. It’s been well known that it has been increasing in importance for the last year. But this really nails it that slow sites are going to be penalized.
Chris
SEO Consultant
If google ranking is affected by these “unnatural” inbound links then any competitor website can just send in lots of spam inbound links of their competitor and blow them out of business. Isn’t it so ?
Unfortunately, I have to disagree. If that were true, almost every website on page 1 would also be penalized and see the same drop as you experienced. I have a site in the top 5, that has only recieved this typee of link for the last 7 months, and has maintained that ranking. And it is a higher competing term than what you are going after.
yeah i agree….this is no basisi for conclusion…as said by one of the persons above..i will pick up my competitors and spam the net with his do follow links… 🙄
that is a great idea about spamming my cimpetitor but they are not also dumb they can do same to us…. 😀
Nice and informative post. This will be of great assistance to me, I have bookmarked your site and make sure to comeback for more such info. Thanks for sharing.
I do a little bit of both! I use keywords and my name or a keyword that i’m trying to show up for and sometimes use that words synonym. Thanks for the post!
I’ve been doing a variety of different types of link building. This post is another one, for example, but back on topic. My site is relatively new and therefore when I do things I have seen clearly what works and what doesn’t. I feel pretty strongly that you are not correct about this. There must have been something else that shook up your rankings. I could be wrong, just my opinion.
Nice to see this lateral view regarding blog commenting. This is quite a different info from what others are telling now.
Definitely I am going to look in to this.
I think it depends on where you are doing your link building. If the site you are commenting on is somehow related to your site,then it shouldn’t be anything different than providing relevant info for readers of that blog.
If, of course, it’s a relatively unrelated site, or you leave a simple “nice comment” than that would make a difference negatively.
What do you think?
I have to disagree with this. Based on my experience, links with anchor texts provide strong SEO support as long as you do not overdo it.
ya i agree with you, anchor text is important to get back links