After about a year of link building and reaching the top few positions for my keywords I seem to have reached a peak. Now whenever I obtain new links with my anchor text I drop SE positions. Is this a case of having too many links with the same anchor text so it looks unnatural? And if that's the case then do I need to get for example 200 more links with different anchor text before going back to my keyword? One thing I can't figure out is most of the sites above me have NO links with the keyword in their anchor text, or very few. Is anchor text less important than we think? I hope to get some answers, thanks
If it's done the right way you won't face any problems. 1. Don't build links in some random automated way, try to get quality links from somehow related sites. 2. Don't use the same anchor text. User different variations, that makes it look much more natural to Google. 3. Use deep linking for better indexing and to stay under the radar (it's more natural instead of getting just homepage links). That should be enough
it would only be natural to keep getting backlinks. think about it, if you have a quality site which people find valuable, will they stop linking back to you after a year or so? therefore you should keep getting backlinks to make your link building campaign look natural. as long as you do not over do it and do it the right way, there is no reason to worry
As your rankings climbed during the past year, your traffic must have increased simultaneously. As your traffic increased, more people saw your site, and some of them should have linked to it voluntarily, assuming that it's a good site. Thus, the natural pattern would have been for your site to acquire links at an increasing rate as your rankings climbed.
Aggressive link building can trigger dampening factors causing link devaluation or even -5 penalty -30 penatly -950 type penalties. Avoid bad neighborhoods and linking to the same network of sites.
I'll second this! Somehow I managed to get 10-12k in links in 2-3 months (blogs) and now I get 0 google traffic.
So if i had a website with 20,000 pages an i linked to your site on all of these pages would your site be penalised?
Good question, I can't answer it. I have a few sites we can try it on if you have a site with 20,000 pages.
I'm still having negative effects even varying the anchor text a little. I honestly think I've overdone the anchor text. I'm gonna stick with the site name for a few months.
You have build the links with same anchor text,right?if its so then your links are now veiwed as spam thats why u r dropping in serps.