Best Practice for Anchor Text Distribution

sootedninjas

What is the best practice for anchor text distribution ?

The anchor text, secondary and generic anchor text is used in the resource box / about me. Right ?

How many links are placed ?

I have 1 main anchor text and about 3k secondary anchor text that I pulled out of the log which are the search terms that was used when a user visited my site.

So if I set for example 15% for secondary anchor text and 15% for generic anchor text, I'm assuming that the balance of 70% will go to main anchor text.

What would be a relatively good percentage setting for the secondary anchor text and generic anchor text ?

Thanks in advance for the assistance.

Regards....

Ozz

Maybe this thread helps.

sootedninjas

thanks sir for the assist. I tried searching the forum BUT the search results are not exactly optimal and it could literally take all day weeding out through the search results.

mafcra

can anybody provide example of proper anchor text distribution? exact = phrase match or exact keyword, secondary = synonym phrase match or exact match?

Sven

anchor text should be the keyword you want to rank your site for like "software"

secondary anchor text should be a text containing your anchor but in a variation like "best software here"

mafcra

thanks for answer, Sven! It exact scheme I used before (20% exact anchor, 15% partial match + phrase match), but i was unable to rank sites using it. After checking ubertoolz videos I decided to select few root keywords (synonyms, popular keyword forms) and use only that keywords with modifiers. Example : 

New ideas on 'software'

'software' programming - Updates

'New software' for dummies

etc.

So no exact keyword used in anchors, only old links have exact anchor. I see some site improvements but still not enough.