Only the First Anchor Text Counts

July 13th, 2008 | by Ankit |

I had recently seen that many webmasters took my old post about links per page wrong. In that post we discussed on keeping the links under 100 if possible because it gives more exposure and more juice to your links.

The PageRank you see on your Google Toolbar is Different from what Google consider for rankings.

Lets do this small experiment to prove how it is good to have minimum number of links on a page.

Step 1: Register a new domain (preferably one with a domain name that has no results in Google - like yorkfabuzapeloh.com or such)

Step 2: Link to that domain’s homepage from some social media profiles or pages you control (but make sure they’re very obscure and hard to find so no one else discovers and links to it - this is pretty easy to do)

Step 3: Create 6 pages on the site, the homepage (A) with two links to pages (B) and (C), pages (D) and (E) - both linked to by page (B) - and page (F) linked to from page (C). It’s important to make sure that (B) is the first link on the homepage (A) and (C) is the second link.

Step 4: Target a nonsense keyword on pages (D) and (F), which are linked to by pages (B) and (C) respectively.

Step 5: Wait until Google has indexed all the pages (usually only a couple days if you link to them from a few sources), then run a search for the nonsense keyword you targeted on (D) and (F). Page (F) will rank first, because there’s more link juice pointing to it than to (D), as (D) is only getting half the link weight provided by page (B) while (D) is getting all of (C)’s link weight.

Step 6: Add a nofollow to the link from page (B) to page (E), which we haven’t done anything with until now. Wait until Google respiders, then check the results again. (D) should now be ranking in front of (F), because it’s receiving the same link weight as (F) but the original link from the homepage (A) to (B) is higher up on the page, which gives it a tiny bit more weight.

I had already tested this thrice last week and it is working perfect. Special thanks to Rand.

Now lets come to the other point how Only the first Anchor Text counts.

Lets pick 2 diff anchor for a single URL. So the one anchor text is kdhfkrjfrmf456 and the other is jhkiuvmfu7856 now search google for these anchor text strange ?

Also note if you nofollow first Anchr Text with link1 then google will automatically ignore second Anchor Text with link1. So remember Google will just count the top link even though it is nofollowed.

Now this is quite clear that Google counts only the First Anchor text and ignores rest of them.

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