Post-Penguin SEO Link Building: The Naked (URL) Truth

[HTMLBasicTutor]

If your rankings haven’t recovered from Google Penguin yet, you’re looking for answers. By now, you’ve cleaned up onsite keyword spam, you’ve stopped participating in blog networks, and you’ve read a ton of articles about how to recover from Penguin, but nothing is working. The fortunate reality is that Penguin is simply an algorithm; a mathematical calculation that factors in different data sets to result in a “score” which is used to rank every Website you see in the search results. The first step to beating this algorithm is to understand it.

Post-Penguin SEO Link Building: The Naked (URL) Truth

[Dan]

Really like this article, and it is something (when discussing the directory industry) that I have been saying for a number of years.

Something like Brand Brand Keyword or Brand Brand Region is always going to be a far better anchor than Keyword Keyword Keyword. Simply having keywords in anchors is far too generic.

I can imagine affiliate marketers tearing their hair out since, the majority of their websites are basically "keyword-keyword-keyword.com" as the URL.

But let's be 100% honest about what they do. It's creating junk websites to make money via affiliate marketing. The content they produce is that wafer-thin stuff, that Panda was supposed to knock out. And the links they obtain are those 100% generic anchors which is what Penguin is looking to knock out.

So in their case, I'm not unhappy.

Real companies will always have a real site-name or brand. Therefore building links or obtaining links, or being linked-to or whatever you want to call it, should always obtain the name/brand before any keywords/regions are taken into account.

[mohsin51]

Every SEO want to get this answer that now what is new in link building your article is very effective to understand the important and technicalities regarding google penguin update.

[seoposter]

I believe it also takes into account the sources of the inbound links, not just the anchors. For instance, if all the links came from a self-service campaign, and not from people who voluntarily give out links. There is so much that Google still has to fix, and I hope that at the end of this, those who really deserve a better share get it.

[G10]

Good article HTML dude.

The Penguin update is actually a pretty simple alogrithm when broken down and from what I can see, folk are making it sound more complicated than it is just so as to scare people into buying EVEN MORE links etc.

I have my own methods for working this and it really doesn't involve going nuts on the link front.

[Inner Voice Designs]

kinda crazy to back in and try to remove backlinks to your site just because they are have keyword anchor text. I think I would just focus on finding a good balance going forward. Dont overdue it with a certain format to compensate. you can still use keywords, just the same exact keywords In the same exact order.