Anchor text distribution problem
Hello guys,
So after my last 2 niche sites getting slapped, probably because of not using much anchor text variation, I thought I'd start the new niche site with utmost carefulness this time.
So I've adjusted all those LSI and Secondary, generic, etc anchor text % to 100% (or kept 90% before and assumed that 10% would be shared for main anchor text i.e. the anchor text, textbox). But when I do a search on ahrefs, it shows that my main keyword occurs 32% times!
How come this? Maybe I don't know proper logic to target, so perhaps any experts could explain please on how to set the main anchor text to around 10% or below? Perhaps @ron and many other experts here could know?
Thank you.
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I really don't see anything wrong which is puzzling.
If you go to the project, right click, pull up verified, and sort by anchor text, what do you see?
On a side note, I would be taking advantage of branding and domain as anchor. I personally don't want such a high percentage of anchors to be either the real keywords or LSI.
None of this makes sense. You had to do something at the beginning of the project (where it made those exact anchor links), and changed something later.
In ahrefs, look at the date those links were first found (or ser for that matter). I bet the answer is there.
And yes, according to your settings, you should have 3% exact anchor (anchor text variation doesn't count). Which makes it more bizarre. This is an extremely small sample size, which makes this data a little less than perfect.
Are you using %macros%, spinning in the HTML yourself, just letting SER insert it on its own, or a combination of these things?
I had a thought that maybe inserting macros etc. *could* be causing your problem, but I guess not.
I had followed ozz's diagram of kw distribution.
I do check in scrapebox tho for the anchours and it does show probably about what i setup in gsa so i guess the discrepancy is jsut what majestic hasnt picked up but it seems weird how it hasnt found ANY kws in the month or more ive had the site going.
I just checked ahrefs and the same deal. if both independant sevices show the same result it indicates soemthing else might be going on.
Why would this be?
Too bad we don't know the cause
Although we've been offering possible solutions, I think that for now your best bet would be to duplicate the project, swap the content for something random from wikipedia, change the target url to bing.com, turn off any filters and posting limits, and let rip with SER for a couple of hours to see what happens.
Maybe build a couple of thousand verifieds, export them to excel and see how it looks.
@Pratik no Im not upset because of a previous thread. Im not that kind of person if the thread makes sense. However I didn't had time recently to read all forum posts (doing that now).
I actually don't know whats wrong here. I would need your project backup to see details.