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Service 04Signal planning

The right wordscreate theright signal.

Six anchor types planned as a distribution rather than repeated as one phrase, because a profile weighted onto a single anchor stops reading as something an editor chose.

BrandedServiceLocationProductPartial matchContextual

Same number of links. One of these was planned.

Branded, service, location, product, partial-match and contextual anchors, planned as a mix rather than repeated as one phrase.

In the engine
04/08
Method stages
06
Deliverables
07
01The problem

Anchors aren't a keyword field.They're what the profile sounds like.

  • One phrase, forty times

    The single clearest signal that a profile was assembled rather than earned, and the easiest one to see from outside.

  • Anchors written at the keyboard

    Chosen while drafting, by whoever happened to be writing, with no view of what the last thirty were.

  • No branded anchors at all

    Real citations use your name. A profile with none is missing the most natural thing in it.

  • Exact match everywhere

    Every link carrying the target keyword, which is a pattern no editorial process would ever produce.

  • Anchor and page disagree

    A location anchor pointing at a national page, or a service anchor pointing at a homepage.

  • Nobody counted

    The distribution is whatever it happened to become, and nobody could tell you what it is today.

02What it is

Same forty links. Two different things.

Strategic systemRandom placements

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What it is
A planned distribution across six anchor types, mapped to specific target pages before outreach starts and spent one placement at a time against the plan.
What it is not
A keyword list handed to whoever writes the draft, producing a profile nobody has looked at as a whole.
03Who it is for

Six situations, six sets of publications.

01

SaaS companies

Products whose buyers search the problem long before they search the category.

In the record

  • Lumin PDF
  • CloudCall
  • Agistix

02

Multi-location brands

Service-area pages that each need their own authority, not one campaign stretched thin.

In the record

  • Select Garage Door
  • Beltway HVAC

03

Local service businesses

One chain per market: the service, the city, a topic that belongs to both.

In the record

  • Beltway HVAC
  • Voyager Plumbing
  • Spartan Plumbing

04

Technology platforms

Category pages competing against directories and every other agency in the city.

In the record

  • Texas Web Design
  • Infintech Designs

05

Real estate companies

Community and development pages, where the market name is the search.

In the record

  • Rodland Real Estate

06

Agencies needing execution

White-label delivery under your brand. No named account in the record; /for-agencies has the terms.

04The method

One opportunity, six decisions.

  1. 01

    Read what exists

    The current distribution first. A plan written without it is a plan to make an existing imbalance worse.

  2. 02

    Fix the target pages

    Which page each type of anchor is allowed to point at. A location anchor belongs on a location page or it contradicts itself.

  3. 03

    Set the shares

    Branded leads, because branded is what a profile acquires naturally when people cite you by name. Exact match is the smallest share, not the largest.

  4. 04

    Write the variants

    Real phrasings, not a keyword with modifiers bolted on — the sentence has to survive being read aloud by an editor.

  5. 05

    Spend against the plan

    Each placement takes an anchor from the plan rather than inventing one, and the remaining balance moves with it.

  6. 06

    Re-read the whole

    The distribution checked as a set, not as a list of individual decisions that each looked reasonable at the time.

ResultA verified live URL, logged against the campaign.

05Deliverables

Seven things that exist afterwards.

Every row is an artefact — something you are holding at the end of a week. None of them is an outcome, because an outcome is not something a supplier can hand over.

  • What the anchors currently say, grouped by type and by destination. The starting point, stated before anything is added to it.

  • Every page in scope with the anchor types it is eligible for. This is what stops a city anchor landing on a national page.

  • Shares across all six types, summing to the whole profile. A set that does not sum to a profile is a chart of something that does not exist.

  • Actual phrasings per type and per page, enough of them that no two placements in a month have to reuse one.

  • Which anchor each live link spent. Recorded at placement time, because reconstructing it afterwards is guesswork.

  • What the distribution looks like now against what it was planned to be, so drift is visible while it is still small.

  • Anchor text stored beside the target page and the live URL, which is what makes any of the above checkable by somebody else.

How an engagement is scoped and priced
06Evidence

What the record actually holds.

Tracked placements

541

Client accounts

14

Industry verticals

8

In the largest campaign

190

Read from the supplied delivery record, which stores the anchor phrase and its destination for every placement. How each phrase is classified is a reading, not a field in the sheet.

07Featured campaign

One service, thirty-one different ways of saying it

Texas Web Design

31

Tracked placements

  • Web design, Central Texas
  • April 2023 – January 2025
  • City pages and map listings

Anchor variants in the record

  • Texas Web Design — branded
  • web design in San Antonio — service and location
  • TexasWebDesign.com — naked URL
  • web design and SEO service — service
  • best web design near San Marcos — partial match
  • reliable web design by Texas Web Design — contextual

San Antonio web design and conversion. One product, opened into the questions its buyers were already asking somebody else.

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08Before you commit

The questions that decide it.

  • By what a profile acquires when nobody is steering it. Branded anchors lead, because that is how people actually cite a company. Exact match takes the smallest share, because it is the one that never occurs naturally in quantity.

  • You can, and your input on how the product is described is genuinely useful. What does not work is a keyword list applied verbatim — the point of the plan is that no single phrase takes a share that gives the profile away.

  • Branded, service, location, product, partial match and contextual. Every anchor in a campaign is one of them, and the plan is a set of shares across all six rather than a preference for any one.

  • It has to be true about the page. A location anchor on a national page is a small lie that costs nothing individually and looks like a pattern across forty placements.

  • Then the plan starts by correcting it, which usually means several months where almost nothing exact-match goes out. Adding a balanced distribution on top of an unbalanced one leaves you with an unbalanced one.

  • Yes. Anchor, target page and final live URL sit in the same row of the campaign record, which is what makes the distribution something you can audit rather than something you are told.

  • Yes, and they are a real part of the mix rather than filler. The record contains plenty of them, because a profile where nobody ever links the bare domain is a profile nobody built by accident.

  • No. Anchor text is one input among many and no distribution guarantees a position. What it is accountable for is a profile that still reads as editorial when somebody looks at it as a whole.

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