Whats up with the new algorithm chage.

Has anybody heard about the algorithm change with the anchor text. It seems as Google is penalizing similar anchor texts to dissuade SERP manipulation and google bombing for competitive phrases.

What are everyone else's theory in regards to this?

Thanks

 

I think have no change!

 

Maybe Changed but we dont know..

 

why do you say that?
you mean it effects the PR or the SERP ?

 

google is crazy about unique content. i think it influences the PR and the SERP

 

In natural linking, different people will use different anchor text. So if all the links to a page have exactly the same anchor text, that doesn't look natural and would be a sign of artificial linking. Thus, Google might apply a penalty.

 

I think google gave more value to natural links (one way). Value of reciprocal links has dropped. I guess this has forced PR reduction.

 

I think its wrong to penalize for this...some people only use 1 anchor

 

Well, for now, I have no idea about that...still searching for that topic..

 

I dont believe they have made a massive change..

yet they could of done something with the no follow anchor texts..

 

Google don't stick to one algorithms they change it every update.

 

This time there seems to be an important update in google algorithm.

 

im seeing less targetted results when im searching and on my sites...

 

google update serps from 4 days ago

but none know if it algorithm change or not till now

 

This is linked to the -50 - 70 penalty
It works in the way you are suggesting but triggered by too much juice or rather too much juice from sites that have a red flag for selling links.
An odd link profile.
I have such a site that has gone froma topper to hovering at the 50 for just about any related search term.
Would have top otherwise.
LOL

 

what makes you think it is a penalty?
any plan of action?
couldn't it be that a large number of your backlinks have lost PR?

 

Quick Update:

So the google dance continues...my serp rankings corrected itself on a few of my sites that had fallen from the 1st page to the 6th. In one case I actually moved up from #10 to #7 on the first page.

Regardless as a best SEO practice I'm going to switch it up and sway away from using the exact same text for my anchortext links.

Anyways, thanks for the input all!

 

I think that some changes occured in the last 2-3 months. Google is "lazy" when it comes to index new pages and even after the pages are indexed, needs some time to get showed.

 

Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe more natural looking structure will have a positive affect but i don't think there'll be negative depending solely on anchor, or say not that much to care for.

 

As I saw to this update, there are no algoritm change. They announced that sincer october 2007, but still no change.