Signature Images

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by sterlingpixel, Oct 2, 2006.

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    Say I'm posting in a forum and I offer to make everyone a custom image and being really nice offer to host it at my site. Do I gain any benifit with search engines with people using a image hosted on my site in there sigs?

    If not is there a way to gain backlinks in this method but without making the image clickable, people wont use them if everytime someone clicks on them they get my site.
     
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  2. Tyler Banfield

    Tyler Banfield Well-Known Member

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    I'm not aware of a way to make the link non-clickable...
     
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    you could include a secondary "hosted by x" image that IS linked (and clickable) to your site.

    other than that I'm not aware of much that'd help you. though I suppose it may be hypothetically possible to come up with some weird javascript solution, maybe... but forums wouldn't allow that anyway, at least in 99% of cases.
     
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    sterlingpixel Peon

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    Cheers guys I thought that maybe the case, the idea is I was going to offer to make everyone there own customised sigs with there nicknames on one of the forums I use, amout of liks generated from these would have been at least 10,000 and would mean i wouldn't have to post so much lol.

    Thought I was being clever for a min there
     
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    sterlingpixel: i believe so. i used to offer a free image signature service wich was not (se)optimized or anything, and the website where i was hosting the whole thing is now PR4. I didnt even know what AdSense was, nor PageRank back then. I did it for fun, thats all.
    I had to shut down the service after a few days, over a thousand people were using it and it was costing me money for bandwidth.

    I'm still getting a lot of trafic because of the signature image thingy and like i said, the website is PR4. Not bad for a website wich had only TWO line of text, the images, and a title.

    I've just put the service back online a month ago using AdSense this time.

    <SelfPromotion>
    http://www.lastfewsongs.com/
    http://speakforyou.lastfewsongs.com: Just finished this other Image Signature service last night
    </SelfPromotion>

    The conclusion: Go Ahead!
     
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