Does your signature Link count as a "real" link?

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by Davey Crocket, Jul 29, 2005.

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    I've noticed that many people have signatures at the bottom of their posts for their different websites. Is this considered a real link...meaning that the links will be spidered by search engines when search engines spider DIGITAL POINT?
     
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    GuyFromChicago Permanent Peon

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    Yes, signature links are spidered by the search engines.
     
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    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    They are spidered, they can show as backlinks when checking your backlinks and I think that MSN may give them some credit. Don't know about Google or Yahoo giving them credit though.
     
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    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    A signature link from this forum is a sure way to get a new sight indexed by Google quickly. They also help with SERPs. Drop a signature link to a site with few backlinks and watch the SERPs fall.

    Shannon
     
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    rj87uk Active Member

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    Yes most links from Forums count one thing you need to watch for is if the Forum is using Session ids ( ?1=222+999988$long url&more ) then there is a good chance most of the page wont be indexed by Google at least.

    A good idea is to talk in forums related to your website topic so you will get more interest from the readers as well as getting ontopic links that should help more.
    RJ
     
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    frankm Active Member

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    It works at least with msn. Put up a signature with title 'sadfsakjdfakjh5436' wait a few weeks and search for that term in msn! your site will be on the first page , and probably the only result
     
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    Klaas Koopman Well-Known Member

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    and it will also help you get visitors! believe me ( and visit my site please lol ) If you post and help people out, they will sure try to find your website, so they can take a look, if that is what they want, make it easy for them and let them click below your posts!
     
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  8. Davey Crocket

    Davey Crocket Well-Known Member

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    What is the Maximum number of signatures one can in this forum? lol Is it unlimited? Because I have 33 + websites and I think my signature would take up more than the actual thread :)
     
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    frankm Active Member

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    You can put max 4 links in your sig
     
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    Web Gazelle Well-Known Member

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    Imagine a sig with 33 or more links, that would look crazy. ;)
     
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    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    And I used to have that, over at SitePoint. It looked something like this......

    *Link* *Link*
    Link Farm 101-12141618202224
    262830...

    with each character in 'Link Farm 101-12141618202224262830' being a link!!! Signitures probably won't help your PR, but yes, they help you get indexed.
     
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    Your posts were probably 2 lines of message and 10 lines of links. :eek:
     
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    Nintendo ♬ King of da Wackos ♬

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    LOL!! Correction, it was more like 60 links!!! :D:D:D Look at this Google Cache.
    And this is before I had the Link Farm 101 message!!!! :D
     
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