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Link velocity seems to be coming back. If you stop building links you fall down in rankings ... competitors who can keep up velocity of links can seem to rise in rankings even if the quality of the links is low.

David Iwanow

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Topical relevance of linking pages and domains remains the most powerful signal, and it's only getting stronger as topic modeling is influenced by entity detection.

AJ Kohn

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Anchor text has had its day—in fact, we have been running successful strategies for years without considering anchor text. Having a strategy around number of anchor text or a specific 'anchor text variation formula' is just ridiculous and will lead to problems somewhere down the line.

Tim Grice