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May 23, 2005, 13:40 #1SitePoint Zealot
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Sitepoint Sig links: Do they really help?
I noticed the other day that when I browsed the forum when I wasn't signed in that I was unable to see any forum signatures. Wouldn't this also make the signature links invisible to spiders? Or did the Sitepoint admins do something to make them viewable by search engine spiders?
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May 23, 2005, 13:48 #2SitePoint Wizard
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Good question - I don't know personally but maybe someone does. I would bet money though that if you can't see it the spiders can't either (otherwise it would be breaking many search engines rules and regs by serving diff content for spiders than for humans)
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May 23, 2005, 13:48 #3He's No Good To Me Dead
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As of now SPF signatures are not visible to spiders.
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May 23, 2005, 13:50 #4SitePoint Addict
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However, you can still get some great hits from SP. You just need some good anchor text to grab them in.
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May 23, 2005, 14:07 #5SitePoint Zealot
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ALmost all my sites have already got an average 50 visits from sitepoint
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May 23, 2005, 14:15 #6SitePoint Wizard
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why the change?
Originally Posted by stymiee
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May 23, 2005, 14:51 #7King of da Wackos
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So we don't make link farms.....
Now you can simply not have a signiture and just copy it in to a post.....
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May 23, 2005, 15:45 #8SitePoint Zealot
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Good idea. The question is: Will that get me banned? Originally Posted by Nintendo
So we don't make link farms.....
Now you can simply not have a signiture and just copy it in to a post.....
I'm guessing they didn't want the spiders to crawl the signatures for a reason.
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May 23, 2005, 15:59 #9He's No Good To Me Dead
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Actually it was turned off because the server is being overloaded. It helped to reduce the server load.
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May 24, 2005, 04:33 #10Technical Director at StuckOn
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We're all doomed! Originally Posted by stymiee
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May 24, 2005, 08:11 #11SitePoint Zealot
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The SEO was nuked for the servers?!?!?
Can we take a collection?
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May 24, 2005, 11:17 #12SitePoint Addict
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I believe I read somewhere that google was trying to make a point of not including signatures on forums and such in counting links. So, even if they were being displayed, they probably weren't doing much anyways. Of course displaying your links to other Sitepoint members is never a bad thing. You'll generate a few visits (at least) and maybe get some feedback, which is always a good thing as far as I'm concerned.
Reduce or eliminate spam on your sites without CAPTHCAs
- maybe it is possible: http://formantispam.thekerrs.ca/
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May 24, 2005, 14:12 #13SitePoint Guru
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Originally Posted by stymiee
awww......
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May 24, 2005, 14:15 #14********* Genius
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Yes, your sigs are hidden from spiders. This is probably going to be a permanent change.
No, you can't put your sig in your posts
Mike
It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
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May 25, 2005, 01:19 #15SitePoint Evangelist
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Sigs on sitepoint are very useful for gaining traffic to your website, it doesn't really bother me that they aren't indexed anymore, i'm sure thats not the reason we include them anyway, right?
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