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> their dofollow / nofollow ratio is a staggering 10:1,

Wouldn't this simply be a result of them having tons of (presumably trustworthy) references?

> They have 210 referring pages linking to their curcumin page with the exact anchor text "curcumin"

What would a better anchor text be? It seems to me to be very informative ("what is curcumin? maybe I'll find out by clicking a link that says 'curcumin'...").

I'm no SEO-er, but these would seem to me to be normal for a "reference-style" website. I wonder how Wikipedia would score according to these metrics...



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