Powerful Generic Anchor Text Density Hack
Here’s a powerful and effective generic anchor text density hack that can work wonders when you incorporate it into your back-linking strategies. It’s safe, powerful, and flies completely under the radar when done correctly.
Interesting perspective on #backlinks & #Anchortext density. Can #keywords flow into generic anchor text?
Acceptable levels of anchor text density vary greatly from keyword to keyword, and from niche to niche. The easiest way to understand what the acceptable levels of anchor text density are for your target keyword is to simply do a search using SerpWorx.
How to measure the anchor text density of th SERPS
Not all keywords and niches will accept such aggressive anchor text profiles though, just take a look at the below results for the keyword ‘chiropractor Sydney’.
Four out of the top five sites have a 0% exact match anchor ratio for the main keyword of ‘chiropractor Sydney’. In my opinion, this is Google’s way of saying “Don’t even think about it!”. The top site which has the 7% exact match also has a domain name that is 17 years old, so that definitely throws a spanner into the analysis.
You can't control what 'real' #backlinks say. #Anchortext density is nothing to worry about if your links are real...
When I see results like this I never opt to build out a client’s back link profile with more than 2% exact match anchors for their main keyword. The results for this keyword search lend themselves perfectly to the ‘generic anchor text hack’ that’s described in the above video.
Adjusting anchor text ratios
Sculpting your site’s anchor text ratios correctly pays huge dividends well into the future. I’ve used the above hack on many occasions and I can tell you it’s very satisfying to see your sites in the top spots, despite all of the sites below you having a more aggressive exact match back link profile.
When you pepper in a few good partial match links in combination with this generic anchor text hack you can really achieve some nice results. And the icing on the cake is that you never have to worry about that wretched Penguin.
#Anchortext rich #backlinks were always powerful... But the top 4 sites for 'Web Desgn New York' have 0% exact match links!
Good Anchor Text Backlinks
In some tough SEO categories in 2020, I have seen anchor text density ratios of up to 50% exact match, yet the sites are still ranking fine. It's usually because these sites have actually earned their links and they are completely legitimate and natural. You can't control how sites link to you, and if the majority of sites choose to use the same basic descriptive anchor text when linking to you, then you can imagine how that would drive up your exact match ratios.
I have seen that quite a lot in the wild, and it's something I wouldn't worry about as long as those links are completely natural. You can have as many exact match backlinks as you want, as long as they are good natural links. On the other side of the coin though, sometimes it just takes a couple of blatant exact match links from a bad PBN and that can drag an entire page down.