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Originally Posted by AdvertisingSex
if you look at a one way link to your site as a "vote", then yes, a "negative vote" would be a site linking to you using a keyword you are not trying to rank for.
Sure, sure, it's a positive vote for whatever keyword they are using, but it doesn't help or hurt your sites rank for your original keywords... so maybe "neutral" vs "negative" would have been better.
You want lots of sites giving you their "vote" by linking to you using the "keyword" you are trying to "rank" for. I think we all agree on that.
~Ray
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that's just not true. there are many factors that matter besides anchor text that determine the weight of a back link. i have a lot of mainstream viral/hoax sites for example, that rank well for all sorts of phrases and the back links almost never have anchor text at all... its usually just the domain name. context of both sites/text surrounding links and many other factors also matter.
you are characterizing what might be an important factor, as being the only factor and you're wrong.
it's simply one factor of many.
