Tertiary Anchor Text Field (for a more natural anchor text distribution)
Hello,
I was wondering if you guys can add another field as the title suggests, right below "use secondary anchor text variation with....". This will help us get a more natural link building profile, by adding more long tail keywords. As you know after the recent Penguin 2.0, Google is giving priority to sites with a more diverse and natural anchor text distribution.
This would help me and others, if it gets implemented in the next update. What do you think?
- Jack
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Is that really necessary? To what percentage would that be useful?
I for myself don't even use the secondary anchor test.
I use this mainly for testing engines, nothing special on SEO here so I might not count.
Anyway if the percentage of secondary and tertiary is nearly the same, you can put it all into secondary anchor edit field or what do others suggest here?
I have seen more of these extra fields in other software particularly since the various google updates.
For example, some fields might be:
Main keywords (e.g., dog training), Partial Match (e.g., John is a dog training expert), LSI (e.g., controlling your dog), Branding (e.g., John's Dog School), and Generic (e.g., click here, this, website, here).
Other please contribute...but these are probably the main fields that a good seo would want to see in a linkbuilding software.
I don't think this is necessary if you use the existing options. for my MS links I have 25% Generic 30% URL, 15% 2nd KWs (with about 5 KWs in) and about 5 main KWs.
However I do think it would be nice to be able to specify the option to use BOTH anchor texts and KWs. I said this before but nobody added any input. I suppose you could just copy & paste KWs into any tertiary KW box though... So maybe it's not a bad idea after all
Exactly what Ozz said. LSI is a fancy word but let me give you an idea of what it means:
If you had an article that was targeting and optimized for the phrase "soccer game", a machine like google would expect certain terms to be in that article, like: goalie, strikers, midfield, defenders, referee, fans, stadium, soccer ball, futbol, etc.
These terms essentially validate that the article is really about a soccer game - words and phrases that one would expect in an article on that subject. So the LSI category is critical for SEO.
Branding has become more important over the years, especially with Google, and it has become another important variable that is needed to establish yourself with google. If you analyze the big names out there like Microsoft, GM, Dell, etc., you will find that a large % of their links are their company name or brand name.
Google views that as very natural. So even if we are peddling anti wrinkle cream, it has now become more important to give our (affiliate) business a name/brand, like "Sandra's Anti-Aging Center".
Actually, the perfect anchor text fields would be:
Yes, we could combine Main Keywords with Partial Match Keywords. And yes, we could combine LSI with Secondary/Related Keywords.
But if you are asking what is the most professional way to do it, I would break it into those six categories above. It will help protect everybody from anchor text penalties (provided they understand something about seo), and it might actually force all of us to actually think about what we are doing.
I can't believe I forgot that. Thanks @gamble4living. I kept focusing on 'anchor text'.
@sven, here we go:
- Main Keywords: 5%
- Partial Match Keywords: 10%
- LSI: 20%
- Secondary/Related Keywords: 10%
- Branding: 25%
- Naked URL: 20%
- Generic: 10%
If you ask 100 people what %'s they would use, you will get 100 different answers. But this is close to how I would do it if I had all the above fields to play with.If I sell pies I'm not allowed to talk about it...no no no, bad SEO guy! Instead I have to talk about recipes, desserts and click heres.
What you will find out is that if your page is optimized properly (title, H1, description) plus terms on the page, Google already knows what your site is about.
If you keep beating it into their head, then they know there is a problem. And that problem would be you. [-X
Lead the horse to the water. Don't shove their snout in it.
No argument there guys, just commenting on how much things have changed. Also, on that note, maybe we should keep a SER keyword and anchor text thread going that gets updated as things change. I've seen some good info from @Ozz and some good contextual linking info from @fullspeed here: https://forum.gsa-online.de/discussion/878/high-quality-campaign-discussion-thread
I like the idea of a third box, but don't want to be shoved into it
@Brandon, I would think of them as custom fields with %'s attached to them. You can use them the way you want to and still get what you are trying to achieve.
And great job @sven!