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« on: August 17, 2009, 03:33:01 PM » |
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Ok so we know forum signatures get counted (albeit not heavily) as IBLs and help more if you use good anchor text in the link. I've noticed when you change your signature it changes all the old ones too. So if you use anchor text of 'cheap bananas' and they get indexed by Google, if you change it to 'cheap oranges' will Google keep the old banana links or will they be replaced by the oranges? I hope that makes sense!  |
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« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2009, 11:00:12 PM » |
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Yes! we have no bananas! and oranges aren't the only fruit
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« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2009, 11:01:05 PM » |
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Seriously, I have no idea, lets hope someone else has  |
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« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2009, 12:18:06 PM » |
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I wouldn't think it matters a great deal and it won't hurt either way so long as you keep to phrases genuinely associated with your site. If your site's about ball-bearing manufacture in the Balkans and you use phrases related to that, "ball-bearing manufacture", "industry local to the Balkans" and so on, you'd be ok either way. If you changed your sig to read, say, "Kylie in her knickers" then Google might have a problem with that  BB |
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« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2009, 12:24:06 PM » |
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Strange folk - I wouldn't have such a problem! |
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« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2009, 12:26:14 PM » |
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What I mean is, would I lose the ranking for the first keywords for it to be replace in the long term by the new anchor text?
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« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2009, 12:26:46 PM » |
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Strange folk - I wouldn't have such a problem! Agreed, that would do me just fine |
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« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2009, 01:10:37 PM » |
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Realistically any effect would probably be so negligible as to be beneath consideration. You'd worry about losing links from related pages on good quality sites, maybe, but not the odd forum link.
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« Reply #8 on: August 19, 2009, 01:19:05 PM » |
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ok thanks for that.
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« Reply #9 on: August 25, 2009, 02:23:52 PM » |
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As far as I'm aware, if you change your forum sig then you will lose all the Google juice for the original anchor text.
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« Reply #10 on: August 25, 2009, 07:28:05 PM » |
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As far as I'm aware, if you change your forum sig then you will lose all the Google juice for the original anchor text.
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« Reply #11 on: August 26, 2009, 10:16:04 AM » |
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You shouldn't change a signature anchor text on a forum if you can help it. You run the risk of raising a flag if you go from domain.com to 'anchor text here' overnight sitewide across 5,000 links etc. I ran some tests and got a site bombed within weeks. be VERY carefull how you handle bulk links.
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« Reply #12 on: August 26, 2009, 01:02:33 PM » |
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Wow, I am sure that this is something few of us have paid heed to in the past - food for thought!
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« Reply #13 on: August 26, 2009, 01:04:41 PM » |
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The latest anti spam/bought links filter from Google looks at the footprint and methods, and signature selling is one fo those footprints/practices.
If you think about it slowly, it makes common sense and is obvious (like most SEO).
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« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2010, 10:24:21 PM » |
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Ok so we know forum signatures get counted (albeit not heavily) as IBLs and help more if you use good anchor text in the link. I've noticed when you change your signature it changes all the old ones too. So if you use anchor text of 'cheap bananas' and they get indexed by Google, if you change it to 'cheap oranges' will Google keep the old banana links or will they be replaced by the oranges? I hope that makes sense! How you can use an anchor text (title="Blabla") parameter with a forum signature? |
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