Except most forums (including here) are nofollow until you reach TL 3.
Note this is simply coincidence;
I think you donāt understandā¦ the links are no-followā¦ That means that any link you add to a topic has zero value for Search Engines. The crawler will not follow the link you posted and will not visit your site because it is in a post. And it will not count as backlink.
But of course, we do get crawledā¦ and as you can see, quite often and our topics will show in search results.
I hope that now it is a bit clearer
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Google doesnt follow it but it still indexes it, but again not the question. but the question is not specific to sitepoint either, but I am making several different points here. First back-links can increase direct traffic as it inherits google ranking for example i may want to be in the popular yellow pages so i can be found on google as to something like phonebook dot blogger dot com .
Secondly a backlink is not directly related to SEO its just a hyperlink, but if used without no follow tag than it can also be beneficial for Google SEO when used correctly.[quote=āmolona, post:22, topic:111043, full:trueā]
I think you donāt understandā¦ the links are no-followā¦ That means that any link you add to a topic has zero value for Search Engines. The crawler will not follow the link you posted and visit your site because it is in a post. And it will not count as backlink.
But of course, we do get crawledā¦ and as you can see, quite often and our topics will show in search results.
I hope that now it is a bit clearer
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It indexes this topic. It will ignore your site because the link is not follow. It has no value.
So dropping the link over and over, it will not help ranking, it will not help with visitors (on the contrary, other members will end up being fed up), and it will not help with anything.
The only thing that can help you is with traffic and awareness but, in a forum, people need to trust you first.
I will visit a site when Iām trying to help with the design and the codingā¦ or when I feel curiosity about the member and the services this member provides.
In the first case, that traffic means nothing. But if I visit because I feel curiosity or want to know more about someone, that traffic may have some value
I donāt know how to make it clear enough. Basically Iām not talking how back links affect a sites rank i just mentioned what Wikipedia stated.
Basically i am saying each of these sites have there own members these members are human, and visit your website if they want to .
No follow back links may not be followed and contribute nothing to my website but they themselves are webpages its like a landing pages, this pages inherits its rank from the parent site, and therefore visitors will come by this on google.
Back links can be any website, let me know some not specifically forums, this was just one example.
Youāre contradicting yourself here and I donāt fully understand what you mean but I suspect that youāre wrong.
This phrase, in particular āthey themselves are webpages. Itās like landing pages, this page inherits its rank from the parent siteā confuses me.
But if with this, you mean that a nofollow link will give some value to your site because it is posted in a trustworthy siteā¦ then, youāre wrong. It will give you nothing. Thatās why is nofollow.
Your contradicting yourself by not reading the text. You are confusing the rank of backlink āsub-directoriesā for my site, my rank doesnāt change, the rank of the sub directory like a forum post is inherited from the forum. Now imaging that you are rank 10 site mostly likely no one will see your site, but you post an ad on a rank 1 site and Boom your on the front page.
If youāre talking about PageRank, then it is not inherited. PageRank is calculated per page. For a popular forum like SitePoint, the home page is likely to have a very high (good) PageRank, while internal pages may be PR0. Which doesnāt matter, of course, because as we keep saying, outgoing links from here are nofollow and therefore do not pass PageRank.
Iām just telling you from experience, now there is a slight variation because you canāt fit it all in one page. now site point is no different than my site, Google treats it equally. Now if i were to weigh up site point post against warrior forum post of identical content warrior forum would be placed above because it inherited rank is much higher. Now I weigh both of these forums against a site like yahoo answers and yahoo answer will gain a higher rank. I have had a lot of experience with test sites to work this out.
And we have had a lot of experience with real sites. Weāre willing to share it, and have tried to give you good advice and useful pointers, but you donāt seem to be ready to hear it.
I wish you luck with your site. When youāre ready to learn, Iāll be happy to try to help again, but there seems little point in me contributing further suggestions when youāre already convinced you know better.
Iāve made a couple hundred dollars on one site and made about 8 websites in total. Iāll believe your experience if you show me your website which I assume is making more than 2 figures, otherwise itās only as real as you want it to be. Iām most certainly sure Iāve got more experience based on these comments with real sites. But I am also sure this forum is not place to come and post your irrelevant advise, so please stay on topic.
Of course it will!
As a said, a link (follow or nofollow) creates awareness and it can help you with traffic. That, indirectly, will affect the rank of your page.
But in a forum (especially in a forum like Sitepoint with so many posts and links), the amount of awareness and traffic you can get will be minimum not to say nill.
First, because you need to create a relationship with the rest of the members, a good one. They need to trust you. Only then a member of the forum may want to see what you have to offer and visit your site. That means, you have to be an active member, and regular visitor of the forum
Second, because there are so many links that people donāt know even where to start to click
Thirld because if one of our members abuse of the power that heās been given, and loses our trust, we ban him.
Iām over the chat about follow no follow Iāve said what I want to say.
Iām happy for all visitors to come by in anyway even if they are not customers but just reviewing the site is still gaining more information.
Iāve noticed people are not interested in any trust they simply care what questions are at the top and what they find they find interesting, very simple.
There is no rule I have to contribute, but I will and simply posting 1 or 2 honest questions would have no grounds for a ban.
Iām cool with that as long as youāre not reviewing your site only to drop the link. If you really need someone elseās opinion to know the impression it gives, or if it easy to use, etc. then by all means, ask for a review
Yes and no. For those of us that try to help others, we donāt care if youāre new or not. We only know that you need help and we will try to help you at the best of our abilities.
Now, if you want someone (anyone) buying from you, you need that trust. Because thatās what a customer does. It puts the trust in your service and product. If you donāt understand is, then you donāt understand the basics of business
And if you fail, then heāll never come back. And although there are millions of persons in the world that may be interested in your offer, as your reputation drops, getting new customers will be harder.
Although I donāt really want to drop a link here for traffic I have made one, this site is not popular even to produce much reviews what Iām looking for is simple an answer to sell, I want to know more place like etsy, ebay, amazon to sell my product. More place like Craigslist, More places that gain exposure as this is the best form of marketing. This morning i search a type of necklaces on google images and literally 20 necklaces from the same website with a watermark on it came up from etsy,ebay, amazon, flickr,just pages and pages. And obviously if you have reserved the next 10 pages and made claim on keywords on these sites on google someone is gonna click your site and competition may be below the backlink pages etc.
Having bought the expired domain from the Vollyball company which still own the Czech version I planned to use this existing website to leverage my own company in SEO with my similar niche site. The problem is my site is not showing on the front page, as as result I need to get either my site or a back link there. Basically this is a niche site organic traffic is not going to be increasing unless I improve the rank or find a different method of exposure. Both problem require back-links to generate the traffic. More back links equals more traffic directly or indirectly,
Those are the most known in terms of international exposure. You should look to your local white and yellow pages and similar.
This article has a list but many of them are India and I donāt know them. I donāt know if thatās going to be of any use to you
http://www.discussdesk.com/list-of-best-100-free-classified-website-for-ad-post.htm
Basically answered my question in the process, but those wonāt work as they expire, and secondly they are mostly not very popular.
Oh well!.. I guess you canāt have everythingā¦ 