Using Forum Signatures Effectively

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    Angelus Well-Known Member

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    Nice article, I wrote about DP forums too ;)

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    Yeah. Great article. I am also in habit of using sign at active forums.
     
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    Good for indexing right?

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    Wow, so people are actually reading my blog and finding it useful. Thanks for the post headless!
     
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    Why woundn't we read your blog? Is it that bad? :p

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    Very good article. Interesting that you suggest using only a single link instead of the four we are allowed.
     
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    Nice article, Matt. I found it very interesting. :)
     
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    Interesting, but by changing the links in the signature, won't search engines crawlers notice that all these links are gone all of a sudden, after the change? Isn't that a negative specially if you have 1 or 2000 posts or more!!
     
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    Interesting question.

    I only use my signature to drive traffic to my blog and not for link juice or PR. Whether search engines will pick up on the links changing every few days I don't know but I think it would be very harsh if I were to be penalized for it.
     
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    Nice article, Matt. It is interesting
     
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    nice article indeed, signature advertising is decent
     
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    I guess it depends how frequently the forum/ topic gets crawled. As you probably know, digital point forum gets crawled frequently.
     
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    Good article Matt. I wonder however about the centering of the link. I agree wholeheartedly that not cluttering up your signature space is a good idea, but I would have thought that the natural tendency is for the eye to return to the left hand side after reading the post - particularly after short sentences or where the post is not the last one on the page.

    Perhaps others can comment?
     
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    That is the importance of sign :p

    You need to think twice before change the links. see how important they are.

    BTW, I made $48 yesterday night by selling my two sign link for six months at $4 per month. Another importance of them is you can make money from them.
     
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    IMO the link should remain but the anchors can be changed according to how valued search terms are at the time to gain maximum benefit.

    Col :)
     
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    thanks thats so useful..
     
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    What I feel is the sign links should be used for traffic in mind and not seo ranks in mind. sign links makes mild effect in rankings. I think it is because forums signs links are spreaded on variety themed pages, pages which have many many different topics diluting the relevancy.

    So it is better idea to have sign links keeping traffic in mind. And yes good amount of traffic come in. I have two services mentioned in my sign and they point back at my DP thread.
     
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    Signatures will drive you loads of traffic, backlinks, also can pass PR too.
     
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    Nice article, I just updated my signature.
     
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