Linking to bad neighbourhood like Banned sites or link farms is a big risk as most of us know. Most of the time this cause a ban for you too. I didnt find any information about this question so i am asking here if someone knows please help thanks.... What if someone post such link in his or her forum signature will that forum be penalized and in addition what if he also had link back to that forum at his site. This is really worrying me a lot if i should allow signatures on my forums or not. This is a serious risk if you ask me so i will wait for the expert answers here. Please try to explain as much as possible for me
You could make all the links in your forum nofollowed. That way you get the best of both worlds, because your users can then post and visit links, and you don't run any risks with the search engines.
But i would like to know if it really is a risk anyone Please help me i am really confused and no one not even experts can answer this I have only contacted few but i didnt get any reasonable answer
Hi jaree, The only person that can answer you this question correctly is the respective engineers from the search engines The best thing you can do at present is to perform some analysis. For example, given the massive outgoing signature links from DigitalPoint and other huge forums, I am sure some are pointing to the bad sites out there. However, these forums are not banned. Obelia's suggestion is the safest way to go at the moment