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Anchor Text Composition Scorer

Paste your anchor text list and see the mix by category: branded, naked URL, generic, partial match, exact match, and natural mentions. Skewed too far toward exact-match commercial anchors is one of the clearest signs of a bought profile.

These are starting-point thresholds based on manual link vetting for tech companies: a first pass ahead of a full audit. A profile can clear every check here and still fail on other grounds, and a single tripped flag calls for a closer look before any automatic disqualification. Nothing you paste in is sent anywhere; it's scored in your browser.

Related: the Backlink Quality Scorer checks if an individual placement is worth having in the first place. For the reasoning behind the thresholds above, see how anchor text mix shows up as a natural-profile signal in natural backlinks.

Anchor Text Composition Scorer by Jan Suski

Expectations for a full backlink profile: exact-match commercial anchors above 10% is the line I'd call risky, and branded anchors below 20% usually flags a bought mix.

One anchor per line. Add a comma and a number at the end of a line to weight it by how many times it occurs.

Paste at least one anchor above and hit analyze.

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