Can personal name anchors from blog commenting be a risk?
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Hello,
I've created a new site early this year.
In an effort to stay on Googles good side I decided not to do any link building. Everything you create yourself is pretty much frowned upon by Google, right?
I have been doing a fair bit of blog commenting where that would add value.
As a result my link profile shows about 50% anchors with my name in it.
Can this be dangerous?
Thanks!
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Yeah, I'm Danish... can't run from it
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Ha, no worries, glad it helped! P.S. I kind of like your name, it sounds kind of like a viking name. Take care!
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Ha, ha... great answer
I am not trying to rank for my own name and it's also a quite boring one.
Thanks!
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Nope, that should be totally fine, that is, unless your name is 'Quality SEO Services' or 'Cheap Toys'.
Take a look at the link profile of say Distilled.com - a big chunk of the anchor text is the two senior partners names. Likewise, my own site is the same.
Additionally, Penguin is keyword specific, so, it would never happen but if it did and you picked up a penalty for your name, would that even be that big of a problem?
I have a natural penalty for my name in that there is a far cooler and more interesting musician called Marcus Miller so I have absolutely no chance in hell of ranking 1st for my own name and rightly so as most people Googling 'Marcus Miller' are not looking for me, they are looking for my cool, M jazz composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist alter ego (who also worked with Miles Davis).
Honestly, as long as you are adding value with your blog posts and keep using your name or nick name and don't do anything silly, then you have nothing to worry about and likely a lot to gain!
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