ReskDrErVek
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Yesterday I saw Ozzu backlinks at within the results of http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=linkdomain:domain.com probably now Google is crawling those backlinks.Now If you think 500 backlinks added in a day, could this cause a sandbox?This is not just for Ozzu also for any forums that you have 100s sig's backlinks, when you changed them this may cause sandbox effect?Btw. Correct me if I am wrong Ozzu links were cgi links and not being counted as backlinks since these days.Sigs and posted links don't count as backlinks, they go through an exit.cgi script.meman wrote:That is interesting, i hadn't noticed that.If you look at the source of the page though youl see the links have a rel="nofollow" attribute on them.So bots still wont follow them.I doubt rel="nonfallow" is preventing bots to crawl those links tough like I said yahoo is already included all ozzu pages. You may validate it too.I removed the exit script for the time being because Ozzu was experiencing high loads and I was trying to cut back on as much serverside scripting as possible.As far as I am aware both Google and Yahoo honor the rel="nofollow" tag. I really doubt your signature will be affecting your SERPs, but you can always edit/remove your signature if you are worried.Thanks for letting us know about this.Slightly off topic, but when linking to an external site can doing something like this show the external (other) site how their visitor got linked from your own site?Code: [ Select ]What do you mean show them how thier visitor got linked from your own site?Better in what way?It depends what you are trying to do.If you want to have all links search engine friendly then having links go through a script is a terrible idea.If however you don't want people to gain anything by posting thier link it's ideal.meman wrote:If you have yoursite.com/a_script.php?url=http://othersite.com othersite.com won't benifit from you posting thier link. A search engine wont take any notice of it and it wont count as an outbound link or a backlink for them. Search engines would see it as an internal link, with a variable. Not an outgoing one like it would be for users who click it.It wouldn't improve your serps though, the only benifit for you would be you would have less outbound links, which i guess you would want if you sell text links and want to save direct links for the people who pay you or if you wanted to track which links are being clicked..meman wrote:Lionking,People aren't understanding you because you hijacked the topic. They were talking about something else, and now you're asking about a completely different thing. They're still trying to talk about the original topic. You should have posted a new topic on your own.Having said that, I understand what you're asking. And I don't see the point. Odds are very good that your Web server already logs the referrer. Why add the referrer to the URL? I'm aware that some people do not allow their browsers to send out a referrer, but that number is low, so it's not worth it to come up with an alternative to the existing system. What exists works. Try it.-Tonyaboyd wrote:It's your browser, not your webhost. Use a different browser, and it'll send a referrer to w3c.At least, that's my understanding of how it works.-Tony