I have a new website which i have been working on for the last 2 months. Everything was going pretty well especiall in yahoo and msn, i was already ranking at num 2 in MSN and number 8 in yahoo for my primary keyword phrase (which by itself drives a lot of traffic). Last friday I launched a new service and wanted to change a dp sig spot to link to that service instead of the site I had been marketing. And to be clear its not my site, it's my company's site. Today I logged into digital point keywords to check on my keyword ranking. For your notes my keyword ranking has been getting better week on week in yahoo and msn ever since the website started. Anyhow I have totally fallen off of yahoo, and msn only ranks me top for 1 keyword phrase. The next keyword phrase is at 50. So basically within 3 days of taking a DP signature off my ranking fell a HUGE amount in yahoo and msn. Quite amazing really. Now again for your reference I have a lot of good links, with varied anchor text. I have links in blogs, directories, articles, news sites, resource areas.. basically all over. These werent my only links. I also have a link in yahoo directory (purchased). Luckily another of my sites recently had a huge jump in google ranking (for even better keyword phrases) so I dont think my boss will take it too hard.
Hi Its amazing what a vlue of a link will do. Good thing to keep in mind when placing links on forums blogs etc Pete
I'm just rather amazed at the effect of the signatures. I'm considering buying some more (though i bought 4 yesterday). I have a feeling a sig i bought a month ago is having a good effect on my other site in google.
it is too early so say it is because of the sig link. I am using DP's tool anymore because it is not that accurate. It can drop 50 or 100 spot in a day and jump back to #1 few day later..better type in keyword in SE and see it by yourself
Its been fairly accurate for me, everytime it says I rank at a spot I'm there. I'm pretty sure its the sig link. My overall link amount in yahoo, and msn dropped by about 100 links over the weekend. Namely my sig links. And i had dropped.
Sig links are one way links anyway, especially when you think about adding to them gradually. Yahoo also loves and exactly counts the number of sig links. When you visit the SiteExplorer part of Yahoo, you can exactly see that all your sig links are present there and so the create a nice optimization atmosphere for a website.
Good examples of what? I assume your talking about alive directory as one of those. I think they do their sales mostly for brand name exposure/traffic (clicks on the links) not for SE ranking.