My conclusion: Google does not only look at the 1st link to a page for anchor text, MSN/Live search does and I am not too sure about Yahoo! Good advice and practice from SEOmoz anyway though, if only for MSN. Why take a chance on it? Make sure that you have your good anchor text in the 1st links to your pages. Join discussion...

Besides the fact that nofollowing the top link will not get you around the Google ignoring the second link, it is interesting to see that Google will still count the top link even though it is nofollowed. Maybe it was due to the fact that the nofollowed link was the only link on the web using that phrase as an anchor text ? Who knows… sounds like a theory worth testing. Join discussion...

I dropped two links to SEO Theory onto the front page of Xenite.Org. Xenite is a trusted domain that has been around since 1997. SEO Theory has earned a fair amount of trust in Google thanks to all the links you good people have pointed to it over the past year. I’m reasonably certain that the home page for Xenite (http://www.xenite.org/) and the main blog page for SEO Theory (http://www.seo-theory.com/wordpress/) are recrawled on a daily basis and are usually recached once or twice a week. Join discussion...