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 Bennett Heyn

Bennett Heyn

@Bennettheyn

Indie hacker and startup founder working to use AI to help improve your SEO authority via reporter outreach backlinks.
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Joined August 2024
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SEO Question: Do backlinks need to include the target keyword as an anchor?
Bennett Heyn
@Bennettheyn

No that is not how it works. There are many other signals affecting your SEO so KD is not a prescriptive metric that tells you how many links you need for that one page. I would focus on boosting the authority of the whole site and use proper internal linking. Guest posts directed to the target page can help but make sure those posts and anchor links seem natural

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Imran Khan
@ehthing

Thanks. I am working on these aspects too. Tackling things one by one. SEO is new to me.

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I loved " I would focus on boosting the authority of the whole site and use proper internal linking". I've got lots of data to show that internal linking works. And naturally organically boosting the domain of the site coincidentally means that you are actually promoting your business too.

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