How Many Anchor Text Rich Links Do You Really Need?

If you want to rank at the top of Google you need backlinks, but all backlinks are not equal. And when you're building these backlinks, the text of the link can impact your ranking for any given keyword. And that's called anchor text rich links. But how many of them do you need to really build if you want to rank at the top? Today I'm going to break down how many anchor text rich links you need to build.

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So the first thing I want you to do is Google for the term that you want to rank for. And it could be any term, as you can see on my screen I Googled for the term SEO, and you could Google for multiple terms like SEO, online marketing and the possibilities are endless.

But I want you to focus just on page one. And when you look on page one the reason I picked the example of SEO is you'll see multiple URLs from the same site. I want you to look at the top. URL from each website that's ranking. If there's only one, one domain per listing that's fine as well. And that makes it easier.

But for any search query that you run that you want to rank for, if there's multiple domains or more so if there's the same domain ranking multiple times, use the top URL for that domain when doing the analysis.

This will give you a rough idea of what kind of links you need to create from an anchor text perspective. So when you're building links, you can see that they're using a lot of random variation as well, but more specifically they're breaking down all right, well, or more so Ubersuggest is breaking down the terms so you can see SEO is a large percentage of the links. Now I want you to do this for each and every single URL.

What works for your competition, typically will work for you. If you see all their links not having anchor text rich keywords and they're not including it, you don't need to include the keyword a lot when you're trying to build your links.

Now you don't want to buy links. You don't want to artificially inflate it. But the other thing that you'll notice is none of the links all say the same anchor text for the pages that are ranking. Why is that? It's not natural for every single link that you have to say the same anchor text. So that's why it's good to rotate it up when you're trying to do your manual outreach and building links.

And in most cases, it's not in your control, but you can try to persuade people and try to can tell them, hey, can you change it to the link text to say SEO or search engine optimization or beginner's guide to SEO? A lot of times they'll say no but a lot of times they'll say yeah, sure. And they won't mind.

But that will give you idea of how rich anchor text links you need when you're trying to rank. And I want you to do this for any of the keywords that you're trying to rank.

Go to page one, go through the top 10 results and then go from there, put it into Ubersuggest, go to the backlinks report and make sure that you're selecting the URL in the type.

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[bizdrip-truebusinessknowle]

Backlinks have helped my blog just go off the roof. Thanks Neil

[subhblogging]

Wishing success to the one reading this 🎉

[luswyr]

hello... what do you mean by when you are trying to build your links? backlinks are what other people put on their website, how can you build them/control what anchor text other people use on their website? thanks for your response!

[DecideTuCasa]

Excellent explanation. Just what I was looking for... Thanks

[SEOTOMICS]

nice statistics analysis! thank you, Neil Patel!

[zeroimpetuous]

Hey Neil, I have a query. How do you use business citation sites to rank a website that's without a physical address or store, say, an online music teaching site that provides a platform to find music teachers for students?

[viveklodhi]

Very thanks to neil sir for this vedio

[petcarecutiepiw]

Thank you so much for valuable information, I have question.
Internal vs external.
Which one best for seo.

[JoshLamechyoutube]

I really interlink like crazy. I don't do link building at all, this is really helpful. How long should that anchor text be? Thanks Neil

[Relaxing_Sounds_and_Views]

Do tags and categories count as internal links on a blog? Of do the internal links need to be in the body text of the post?

[rishikeshbharti]

Hey Neil,
Right now my article is second page on the Google. On the term best treadmill in India. I have created more high quality backlinks than my my competitors also wrote high valuable article.
So could please you tell how can I rank my article in first page.

[VishalGhosh]

Great Video Again. Loved It

Why there is so much confusion b/w SEO and Digital Marketing. Are they really so different.

[hadiya]

I have a question. How important back links are from high domain authority and from local for the local SEO? Will it help if from other countries? If we put on scale both, local or none local has power? Thanks Neil.

[shecontent]

I created a blog website in Jan 2021 and I am posting articles consistently. Since march the images have started showing up in search results for few keywords. Is it a positive sign?

[ahmedelnazir]

How many Anchor texts should someone use on a guest post? Some people say 1 to maximise the link juice, others use several.

[sonhappy]

I want to start a link for language learning and make it very successful if you feel bored one day and want to help me! it would be such fun! for me obv, I don't have anything to teach a master like you! apart from Italian! haha! Anyway! Thank you for your videos! I love love love them!!

[vacationcyprus]

After how many days I can see the new backlinks and anchor?

[condotraders]

How fast should you build links for a new site. I have the site all setup and I'm worried that my site will get penalized if I hired an agency to build links..

[FRUSTVIZ]

*Hi, Neil one query:::*

Can I know a tool or a site that can show SEO ranking of a word without me having a website _(if haven't built)_

I mean like, I wanted to decide a name for my company/website and before fixing for a particular name, I want to check how unique or how much popularly exists that name for SEO.

Like if I keep that name but it consists of too much high ranking keyword that increases my budget to compete in Ads right...!?!

So I want to aware of such information before deciding a name or a keyword in SEO Terms.

So, is there any tool or a site as such which can rank & show possibility of a name.

[PathsUnwritten]

Is there any harm or benefit to the exact URL or exact article title being used as anchor text instead of in-context keywords?