Google: Multiple Anchor Text Links To Same URL On Same Page, The First Or Longer Doesn’t Matter

The question of which anchor text does Google count when you have the same link multiple times on your page, linking to the same location, is not a new question. We have been covering it since before before 2008 and even Matt Cutts made a video on it in 2014. John Mueller of Google just addressed it again in his SEO video hangout.

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