Creative way to use your sig. links.

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by midi, Nov 6, 2007.

  1. #1
    Links for inner pages are always more difficult to get. I was thinking of using my DP signature for that. I was thinking of changing the link on my signature every 20 posts or so, so I can have links to my inner pages also. However & following the fact that I have never used my signature before I do not know if this is possible. For this to work out, posts would need to remain with the signature link they had when they were created

    Here is my question: Once the signature is changed, does the change affect all your past posts also or the past posts remain with the signatures one had when he / she posted these posts?
     
    midi, Nov 6, 2007 IP
  2. jonbuoy

    jonbuoy Peon

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    I've recently joined DP and was wondering exactly the same thing.

    I'll make two posts with my sig links in a different order for the second post. If they both appear the same, we'll know that changes affect all posts. If they're different, then ... well I guess you'll get the idea.

    Jon
     
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    I've just changed my signature, swapping the order of the first two links and I can see that the changes I made are reflected in both this and the previous posts.
    Hope this helps answer your question.
    Jon
     
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  4. midi

    midi Active Member

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    Thanks Jonbuoy. You have been more creative than me to find that out. I wonder if there are any other forums where one can do that & the signatures remain as they were when the posts were created.
     
    midi, Nov 6, 2007 IP
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    hooperman Well-Known Member

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    If you have a long posting history on a forum, the older posts you made will more likely be buried deep within the forum's inner pages and crawled less frequently. Therefore, when you change your sig link the more recent posts will be indexed with your new links quickly, while the older posts will remain indexed with the older links for a while longer. Obviously over time it's likely that the older posts will be reindexed with your new sig links, but you might have changed them again by then.

    Sounds like a full time job to me, with not much benefit in return :)
     
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  6. midi

    midi Active Member

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    If that's the case, I see it would make little sense following this way. In order to make sense, signatures would need to remain as they were when post was created. If anybody knows any other forums which follow this way, I would apreciate if you could share. Thanks,
     
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    if you are a member of different forums, why not just use different links in each forum, you should be able to build up 50 - 100 internal links fairly quickly.
     
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    Here is my question. Is there really any solid proof that signature links actually carry any weight with any SE's?

    I have thought of testing this idea out but have not so far. I did find a two year old test of this theory but many of the forums that were used were no longer online and the test page was gone. Leads me to believe it did not work. Much has changed in the last two years.
     
    bartimus, Nov 6, 2007 IP