By: Rick Noel

Rick Noel — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:00:41 +0000

Hi Mike. What an excellent and concise video response to a difficult, yet timely question. There is no doubt you could discuss the answer for an entire day. Anchor text diversification is especially important as are trust factors given the latest Google Link Algorithm update which was rolled out in Mar. The impact to sites with aggressive link building tactics, especially around questionable neighborhoods, paid links and lack of diversification in anchor text has been significant. The Google update is very effective at identifying unnatural links. Many sites have incurred strong penalties after being warned in Google Webmaster Tools about unnatural link notices that Google has sent out to supposedly 1 million websites in the past few months. If there has ever been a dangerous time to buy links, now is it! Thanks for sharing.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:57:06 +0000

@rob i agree that 2 independent study would be great. The context of the link is crucial !

By: Rob Start

Rob Start — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:27:30 +0000

Might be interesting for there to be independent study on 2 of the points:

1) how many outbound links on the page
2) affect of the position of the link on the page

Because there seems to be some debate about those 2 points.

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