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Signature links affect Google page rank?

Discussion in 'Google' started by Lazarus1, Dec 5, 2008.

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    can this affect google page rank?

    lets say I own a domain such as digitalpoint.com and a forum on a subdomain say forums.digitalpoint.com. Both the main domain and the subdomain have google pageranks. However, Google considers both the domain and the subdomain as the same domain and hence treats them as the same. If i allow users to use signature links on the forum will that affect the pagerank of the forum and the main domain? I read a post here on DP where someone was complaining about this. For example if users use adult signature links then that can dragstically affect your pagerank. What is your opinion on this?
     
    Lazarus1, Dec 5, 2008 IP
  2. Caesar1

    Caesar1 Peon

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    It will effect just the forums PR. if you have links that lead to so called 'bad' sites then google will treat your site bad for that link. even qustionable language or copyright violations could do this
     
    Caesar1, Dec 5, 2008 IP
  3. mixke

    mixke Prominent Member

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    Allowing do-follow sig links "might" result in drop in PR. But if you have something good like DP then don't worry about the drop, you'd be having more threads and incoming links than outgoing links. DP allows do-follow links and its PR varies between 6 and 7 [I've never seen PR5 for DP]
     
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    flatroxs Banned

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    yes signature link affect google page rank but form should be have do-follow
     
    flatroxs, Dec 5, 2008 IP
  5. Caesar1

    Caesar1 Peon

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    Yeah thats also great if you have other sites, put that link in your siggy!
     
    Caesar1, Dec 5, 2008 IP
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    dairyman Notable Member

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    Signature links from forums like dp do not contribute significantly to boost your PR but something is better than nothing. Apart from the small push, it adds to your traffic.
     
    dairyman, Dec 6, 2008 IP
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    Rblakney Peon

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    Ditto on what everybody else has said, put do-follow links.
     
    Rblakney, Dec 6, 2008 IP
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    yenerich Active Member

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    Yes, it will affect the PR, but in the other hand, it will make your forum grows. If you have good rules to avoid spam, it will be a good idea to allow do follow links in signatures. Just look this forum.
     
    yenerich, Dec 6, 2008 IP
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    UncleBun Banned

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    it will affect the pr of ur site too.
     
    UncleBun, Dec 6, 2008 IP
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    brian65 Active Member

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    Forum links do help a bit I think. They also help in passing on traffic.
     
    brian65, Dec 6, 2008 IP
  11. IEmailer.com

    IEmailer.com Well-Known Member

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    They might help a little bit if they are passing juice at least from some high PR pages on that particular forum ;)
     
    IEmailer.com, Dec 6, 2008 IP
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    freight guy Member

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    it helps pr some, but it really help with your search engine ranking
     
    freight guy, Dec 22, 2008 IP
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    i think signature link affect your site rank and also pr rank
     
    eposdirect, Dec 22, 2008 IP