Highlights From The Episode:

• We had a special guest, Igor Lebich, our managed links department manager. He talked about his background in SEO of how he started out building affiliate sites in the music industry, then came to work in the managed links department at Web 2.0 Ranker.
• Victor and Igor gave tips on how to improve your link-building strategy and how Web 2.0 Ranker does this competitor analysis for clients. They announced that the grand prize winners for the 4th of July Sale have been chosen and emails sent out.
• They discussed some comments from Google, including No Ranking Factor Compensates For Missing Relevance and It Doesn’t Matter If You Use Blog Folders For URLs & We’re Not Wrong. They added that Google Business Profiles has dropped call tracking features.

2:25 Q&A with the guest

Web 2.0 Ranker Weekly Update

16:18 Brand updates, deals, promotions, and news.

• Sign up now if you’re not signed up for the Web 2.0 Ranker weekend update!
• NEW BLOG: How to Build the Perfect Anchor Text Ratios for SEO
• We have sent out the emails for the grand prize winners from the 4th of July Sale!
• The Q3 webinar was on Monday – we will have a replay out shortly.

Recent SEO News

29:47 Catch up on the latest industry and algorithm updates.

• Google’s John Mueller: No Ranking Factor Compensates For Missing Relevance
• Google: It Doesn’t Matter If You Use Blog Folders For URLs & We’re Not Wrong
• Bing Tests Search Result Listing Branded Side Labels
• Google Business Profiles Drops Call Tracking Features

SEO Q&A

45:35 I have a keyword “pros + target kw + city” that was used as an anchor. It represents 70% of my backlinks anchors or about 300 backlinks. My competitor’s anchor text ratio is 80% branded or naked anchors. I’m sitting in positions 10-20 for money keywords. I would like to boost the rankings of this old site.

Does using exact match anchors, even more, will affect negatively the rankings? and what would you do in my position?

Thanks in advance for all your replies.