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05-24-2007, 12:51 AM
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Do search engines count forum signatures as relevant links which give bearing on how sites are listed in search engines? I suspect that search engines have become smarter that they do not put much weight on forum signature links.
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05-24-2007, 01:18 AM
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Depending on the forum you do get backlinks from forum signatures, but I don't think that helps a whole lot unless the forum you are posting on is related to the topic of your forum signature. Of course I could be wrong, but I have some adult sites that I have in my forum sig on some adult forums and I do notice a difference.
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05-24-2007, 01:59 AM
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Searchengines do count forum signatures as it counts mine at DP and PUN Im not sure how heavy it is but it definently gets my sites indexed faster because of my sig.
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05-24-2007, 02:36 AM
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Signatures does help quite a bit, not only in the Serps but also for gaining direct traffic. Although there are better ways of improving your serps, forums does help a little. I definately also know that it gets your site indexed rather quick as I experienced this with another site of mine a while back where I only listed it in about 10 forum sigs and the homepage of the site was indexed within 48 hours.
Although signatures does help in ranking a site, it doesn't help as much as some other methods as there are normally so many links on a page in a forum that you don't get much credit for your links. Also, I think Google would only count the first 20 - 30 links or something around that way when it comes to ranking a site as if they counted them all, then anybody can easily get hundreds of creditable backlinks by purchasing sitewide links from other online sites, which can easily be done.
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05-24-2007, 04:30 AM
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AffiliateSeeking you are right, having a signature in an active forum with a link to your new domain helps it get indexed faster. Because in active forums, google search engine spiders are quite active and thus notice your link faster than they would have, had you put it in a not so active website.
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05-24-2007, 08:39 AM
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Yes, I have personal experience on this. Forum SigLinks does have an SEO impact. Positive one though.
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05-25-2007, 01:00 PM
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Yes alpha I agree with you.Yes they do have an SEO impact,Infact I got some visitors only from a foru,thru signature...So its upto you how u r making ur signature attractive
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05-28-2007, 05:42 AM
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Originally Posted by AffiliateSeeking
Signatures does help quite a bit, not only in the Serps but also for gaining direct traffic. Although there are better ways of improving your serps, forums does help a little. I definately also know that it gets your site indexed rather quick as I experienced this with another site of mine a while back where I only listed it in about 10 forum sigs and the homepage of the site was indexed within 48 hours.
Although signatures does help in ranking a site, it doesn't help as much as some other methods as there are normally so many links on a page in a forum that you don't get much credit for your links. Also, I think Google would only count the first 20 - 30 links or something around that way when it comes to ranking a site as if they counted them all, then anybody can easily get hundreds of creditable backlinks by purchasing sitewide links from other online sites, which can easily be done.
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I am not Agreed because In a account i have 1.5k posts, Search engine has counted like 1.2k+, You should buy signature link because they are cheap and good.
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05-28-2007, 12:16 PM
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I agree with some one the posters above. It all depends upon the kind of site you have.
After that it all boils down to the content, if your content is good, people coming to your site from the forum will become returning visitors.
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05-30-2007, 11:17 AM
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Yes signatures help a lot! I had/have a website with a simple free URL forwarding domain, not an actual domain, so I could not do any SEO. But I made a sig link to that website in my signature links (hundreds) and I turned it into a PR3 website! without any on page SEO! So it works with proof!!
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06-01-2007, 07:26 AM
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Originally Posted by Tcm9669
Yes signatures help a lot! I had/have a website with a simple free URL forwarding domain, not an actual domain, so I could not do any SEO. But I made a sig link to that website in my signature links (hundreds) and I turned it into a PR3 website! without any on page SEO! So it works with proof!!
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Thats it! It really helps alot.
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06-03-2007, 09:42 AM
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I noticed a lot of people on this forum don't have a signature, is there a reason for that?
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06-04-2007, 08:11 AM
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forum signatures do help in getting a good page rank as the search engines sees from how many sites your ae getting backlinks it really helps a lot but the main king is the content and the meta tags . but signatures in the forums did really help me in getting my site to a pr 5 .
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06-06-2007, 06:18 AM
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It all depends on whether the forums is related to your site.Surely I think that searchg engines do take forum signatures into consideration for search engines ranking.And also the pr of the forums matters.
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06-24-2007, 11:47 AM
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I just wonder if it works better to place your site link on the text box . That means your signature is posted here instead of the signature link below.
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06-24-2007, 12:16 PM
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Exculiber, unfortunately that's not allowed in these forums and most probably all other forums on the web don't allow it either.
The signature feature is there so that forum owners can put restrictions on what can and cannot be done when allowing their forum members to have a signature.
With the AffiliateSeeking forums you will see no difference in PR gain from having your signature in the main posts content or by using the signature file given to you. We don't use rel=nofollow here.
Just thought I'd let you and others know just incase you think its alright and then end up getting banned from other forums that you take part in.
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06-24-2007, 03:43 PM
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Originally Posted by gladiator
Do search engines count forum signatures as relevant links which give bearing on how sites are listed in search engines? I suspect that search engines have become smarter that they do not put much weight on forum signature links.
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I think signatures are good way to attract traffic and are useless in ranking. Almost all forum with good ranking don't allow live signatures. Signatures which have links are called live signatures. Anyhow it is a good way to advertise yourself.
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