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Does google count both links towards your site?
If you already are getting great linkpop from the 1 link you have there, and you add a new link to exact same page with different anchor text, will it hurt your original links authority, and therefore cause your original great ranking to decline?
In short, if you have 1 link on a page with great anchor text sending you traffic, does it make sense to add another link to the same page with different anchor text, or is it better to add a new link to a different page on your site so it most likely won't hurt the good work you have already done.
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[edited by: ciml at 11:40 am (utc) on Aug. 13, 2002]
[edit reason] Just de-linked example addresses. [/edit]
"...or is it better to add a new link to a different page on your site so it most likely won't hurt the good work you have already done."
Remember, the more links out on a page, the less pr each link will carry.
I also wonder if two links out on one page to an external domain count any more than one. Internal yes, but external.... maybe.
I would leave it as is. It is too easy to abuse this and google will have thought it through, and will probably ignore other links to your domain. This may trigger a spam filter, a better way to do it is to have different pages on the other site linking to different pages on your site, but becareful of making a "community" of too many sites interlinking.
I too wonder about whether two links count as two or just one (both for transfering and diluting PR).
As the link text is different, I would point the second link at a different page to make each link match the title and body text of its destination.
MHes:
> Internal yes, but external.... maybe.
This sounds interesting.
Thinking about this, I would put 2 or 3 external links on the same page, but no more.
Internal I'm sure is fine, as it is done widely for nav bars.
Does google count both links towards your site?
yes. If these two are the only links on that page, PR-wise it does not really matter, you send all the PR available to your target page. If you do (e.g. you have some navigation links too), two links to the same page count more than one (you send more PR to that double linked page and less through navigation links). Internal/external issue does not really matter I think.
and you add a new link to exact same page with different anchor text, will it hurt your original links authority?
Not really the authority (not sure what you mean there), but it will dilute the keyword density of your original anchor text. Taken to extreme, if you had a page with 100 links to the same page with 100 different anchor texts, you would probably kill any chances to rank well for any of them.
The only exception I can see is if these different anchor phrases would be not competitive at all, then you could probably cover more "weak" phrases per page and still rank well for all of them. But then, who is interested in non-competitive phrases?:)
