Another abuse of excessive black hat link building has been taken over by Google. Matt Cutts has pointed out that Google does not counts links with anchor text abuse. Links that are editorially provided in the blog post are of much value than links from widgets and infographics that are not editorially provided. In most of the cases, the webmasters don’t even know that a link has been put into an embeddable widget with keyword rich anchor text causing link abuse.
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