poznanczyk
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If you are reading this, then you're tainted.Seriously though...Browsing this forums I have found that a lot of frequent posters here,who put links to their sites in their signatures, have their sites withjust PR0 ranking.Could Google be penalizing sites based on such forum posts?If not, is there any benefit, since all the links are redirectedthrough an ozzu exit script anyway?haha. I am not tainted!I think there are some benefits in having them in your sigs. afterall the sigs are all indexed as backlinks in ggoogle!Having your link in a sig on Ozzu offers you no benefit from google whatsoever. All links are redirected and ran through a blocked spiders.txt file.Links in your sigs help your ranking a little when the forum doesn't redirect the link yes, but why on earth would google penalise a site just for links from forums? LolThe reason they are all PR0 is because google havn't updated in months.This whole PR thing is really starting to get annoying. I honestly can't see why a single person would care about what PR a site has at the moment as they are ALL outdated.Jessica, for how long the PR has been outdatedand are there any prospects of having it back up?I have always assumed that a high PR correlatedwith a high Google ranking (as long as the pageis balanced with keywords in TITLE, META, H1,content etc.).If PR is not updated, is there any benefit ofdoing any Google SEO and collecting inbound links?Thanks.PR hasn't been updated by Google for what is coming up to three months. Only Google know if they plan to update anytime soon.Search engine rankings are not about PR ... infact, they have nothing to do with it really. The reason for collecting inbound links is to help improve your placements in the serch engines, by having your targeted phrases as anchor text.Yes, I do recognize the importance of setting uplinks with targeted phrases as anchor text. However, don't you think that a high PR sitemay get a more favorable placement than onewith a lower PR?Quote:rtchar wrote:And btw Jess, I see that you are missing the little www image in your posts. Perhaps, that's why you are also not noticing the benefits of posts in ozzu.All I can say is check it out for yourself ...http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=link%3Awww.dogtagsdirect.com&btnG=SearchAs I said, it is counting the image link as backlinks. Not the sig. Is there a reason for you to think that the backlinks are actually from the Sigs? And not from the image? How would you differentiate between the two and be sure that your sig links are what being counted? Whereas my main presumption is that google respects the robots.txt file.I am not really sure what you are getting at ...The image in my sig is from my banner directory (not the root). So why would Google link that back to my domain name, and not he image file?Both the image and text in my sig are linked to my domain name through the exit.cgi, and this is the only place where my domain can be found.Can you tell me (better yet show me) where the domain name is in the clear?It's not in the sig. Every links in the sig or post goes through exit.cgi(including image links).I am talking about the www image. Look below the sig in your posts. See three images: Profile, PM, WWW? That www image (visit poster's website) is counted as backlink.Quote:No one believes in my true prophecy.And now it's too late.