Anchor and host page in conflict

Anchor and host page in conflict

A subtle relevance mistake surfaced in a couple of threads.

— A forum post: an edit with a 'best crypto wallet' anchor dropped into an article about gardening tools — technically on a decent site, contextually nonsense.
— An agency blog argues the anchor should make sense to a human reading that sentence, or it reads as injected.
— Tip circulating: if you can't picture a real editor writing that link naturally into that paragraph, don't buy the slot.

Editor's note: the 'would a human have written this' test catches what authority metrics miss. A mismatch between anchor and host topic is the most obvious paid-link tell of all, and the easiest to avoid.

Pick of the week: the thread with the 'human editor' sanity check.