Anchor Text Distribution Checker
Paste your anchors and see the mix — branded, exact-match, partial, naked and generic — with a warning when exact-match crosses the threshold where a profile starts looking built rather than earned.
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Anchors analysed
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How anchors get classified
- Branded. Contains your brand name. The backbone of a natural profile — real editors link to you by name.
- Naked URL. Your domain as the anchor. Also natural, also safe.
- Exact-match. Exactly your target keyword. The highest-risk type, and the one that gets profiles into trouble.
- Partial-match. Contains the keyword inside a longer phrase. Lower risk, still useful.
- Generic. "Click here", "read more", "this article". Passes little, but every real profile has them.
- Topical. Everything else — descriptive phrases that are neither branded nor keyword-targeted.
What the thresholds mean
These are working rules of thumb, not published Google numbers. A natural profile is usually dominated by branded and naked anchors, with exact-match in single digits. Exact-match above 10% is the point where a profile starts to look deliberately built; above 20% it looks manipulated.
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