There are days guest blogging is a rewarding process.

Someone actually appreciates your content and doesn’t mind putting in some backlinks for you.

But there are other days when all you seem to meet is frustration.

No one wants your articles because you’re associated with a company.

When they do take your articles, they might take out your links or claim the article as their own.

They might fill it with their own affiliate links, but refuse to give you credit. And when you finally do get links, they’re broken, have the wrong anchor text, or go to the wrong pages.

If you do some anchor text analysis, however, there’s something to be said for imperfect links. After all, perfection isn’t natural.

Imperfections show the webspam bots you’re not using link-building software to automate your link building.

So let’s go through some of the commonly encountered imperfections in anchor text and see whether they really do negatively affect your link building efforts. (more…)