It must happen at some point or another I think . Signature links are garbage , completely useless and even misleading to SE users in terms of deciding the importance and PR of a certain site, and I am pretty sure that everyone including Google understand that these links are worthless in terms of determining the importance or relevance of the site they link to . But if it would end there , that wouldn't be a problem I think . Problem is when these sites later use the PR they got from useless and misleading signature links in order to sell links to other sites , creating a chain reaction of fake importance ... While forum posts that actually contain links in their content should contribute to the ranking and are a rather important part of the Internet dynamics , signature links are not related to the content of the posts at all... I think that it's a rather unique type of useless links , and requires specific changes to the algorithm in order to seperate them completely from useful and contributing links , the sooner the better . P.S Happy new Year !
That would make no sense you know . I am not criticising the people that use this tool , I am criticising the fact that it's there . As long as it works , It would be mighty silly not use it ... Btw , are you aware of the fact that "amitpatel" means "the wiggling one" in hebrew ?
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Exactly! I have always found that using sigs on forums are a great way for driving traffic to a site and one forum that I do use that is relevant to my site gets me 100 referals per day. I also tend to believe that if you use a sig for back link purposes then you should have the links on a relevant topic forum.
They are not useless to the people that put links in sigs . They are a great source for cheap(of free) and well-anchored permanent links . I am talking about the SE users that get their results affected because someone dumped 42,000 backlinks into a 3 month old site , which later uses it to affect the rankings of more sites .
Hmm, I have always thought of sig links as a way to promote your site rather than a way to increase SE PR.
Hey, if you are replying to a post and you have a website in your sig, your site has a little do do with the post, but it HAS. For example, my sig