Randfish Confirms It - “Only First Anchor Counts”
I notice about six months ago that most of my links were having no good affect.
I was putting links on some of my sites that point to more of my sites. 
But, I was putting the links like this:
- mysiteA.com anchor -> free car insurance quote
- mysiteA.com anchor -> free car wash and wax with quote
- mysiteA.com anchor -> lowest cost collision work
So, the external domain was the same in each link, but the anchored text was varied. I was doing this on multiple sites over a period of months and I was noticing that my sites were only ranking well for the first anchor in each list.
I called this the “single site, multiple anchor” rule.
In all of my cases, the links were stacked on top of each other like a list. I figured that if they are spread around the page, things might be better, but I never tested that.
Today I read a post by Rand of seomoz.org titled: Results of Google Experimentation - Only the First Anchor Text Counts. Heh, that title sure rang a bell with me.
I suggest that you read Rand’s post and memorize the rule:
“single site, multiple anchors don’t count”.
“single site, multiple anchors don’t count”.
“single site, multiple anchors don’t count”.
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