The Anchor Text Distribution Checker analyzes your backlink anchor text across branded, exact-match, generic, and naked-URL categories, with healthy ranges to compare against.
How to Use It
- Enter the domain you want to analyze.
- Run the check — the tool breaks down your anchor text distribution across categories: exact-match keyword, partial-match, naked URL, and other/long-tail.
- Compare your distribution against healthy ranges to see if any category is over-represented.
- If your profile skews too heavily toward exact-match keywords, adjust your future link-building efforts (guest posts, directory listings, outreach) to favor branded and generic anchors instead.
When to Use It
- Before a link-building campaign — check your current baseline so you know how to balance new links.
- After buying or receiving many links quickly — a rapid influx of similarly-anchored links is a common red flag worth checking.
- Auditing before working with a new SEO agency or link vendor — a vendor who exclusively builds exact-match anchors is a signal worth questioning.
What It Doesn't Do
The tool analyzes your existing anchor text distribution — it doesn't change anchors on links you don't control, and it can't tell you with certainty whether your specific ratio has caused any ranking impact, since Google doesn't publish exact thresholds. Use it as a directional health check, not an absolute pass/fail test.
Where to Go Next
If you're building new links and want them to land primarily as natural branded/generic anchors, directory submissions (which typically use your product or company name as the anchor) are a solid addition — see our done-for-you service or our Linkio comparison for more on managing anchor-text strategy alongside directory links.