Given this, how long do you think it will be
before anchor text is no longer a useful signal to the engines, at least not by itself?
Not exact matches
Sites Google deems to have an influx of inbound links with sloppy
anchor text, spam comments or guest posts on disreputable sites, suffer harsher penalties than ever
before.
Before Google's Panda algorithm in 2011 (and then Google's Penguin algorithm in 2012),
anchor text manipulation was rampant because it worked so damn well.
But
before Ahrefs, you couldn't filter by the «terms» you most frequently use in
anchor text.