Its widely believed that Google only follows and attributes the anchor text from the first link on a page. I.e. if you have 3 links on a page to the same target URL with varying anchor text, Google will, in most cases, only look at the anchor of the first link (think about your ‘home’ links!!!).
Jim has discovered this great little tool that parses your pages and reporting on the first link use. It also highlights nofollow links and has a few other usefull indicators that you might find useful.
So if like me you’re mad on organising internal link structures give it a go.
www.firstlinkchecker.com
Mark,
That’s a cool tool and I’ve bookmarked it. It is also good for confirming who you’re actually linking to. :) Sometimes we forget who we’ve linked to in the past.
I’ve heard of the “first link” theory in the past, and have often wondered if the first link is a navigational link that says “home” and later you link with a keyword, if it’s worth redoing your navigation and website to change the link that says “home” to keyword. I think this is a case where it’s best to put your human visitors first, even if it’s not perfect seo.
Yep the ‘home’ link overrides the second link so deffo do that.
If you think about it your logo usually comes before a home menu link so you can image replace that with a link with useful anchor text, or use CSS to position your nav further down the code but visually at the top of the page – theres always a ways and means to this type of thing.
I like this tool
There shown that my blog has 203 outbound link which unique link only amounted to 97.
Should I remove the links are repeated on my page so that the link is not too much outbound link ?
thank you …
yes i would look into that