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I have been playing with Forum Sig links for a few months now & tested a theory over the course of the last 2 months.Simply put, I took 3 accounts on separate forums with one sig link (around 1,800+ total posts combined) & added a 2nd Sig link to all 3 forum accounts.with 48 hrs. ALL IBLS for Google / Yahoo / MSN dropped to "0" While Both AlltheWeb & AltaVista climbed to 1,800+ IBL's. The top 3 engines sat at "0" for about 1 1/2 weeks & then slowly started to clime again, within 3 weeks Yahoo & MSN matched AlltheWeb & AltaVista & Google returned to its normal stance.To make sure this wasn't an Isolated incident, I repeated the process by removing 1 sig link & replacing it with another one on all the same forum accounts. Low & Behold, the same thing happened with the exception that it took 4 weeks this time to level back out in the top 3 engines.because of this I would have to firmly say that MASS IBL's DO generate a RedFlag in the more enhanced Algorithms (Namely Google / Yahoo / MSN) & cause a 3-4 week penalty for suspected Spam.Their may be cases with longer blackout times than mine, however, the results that I found was enough for me to start slowly building Vs. mass submissions. No telling what a more Spammy approach other than forum sigs would have done to me (E.G. Link Farms, FFA's, Web Rings, Mass Directories, Etc.).This is one of those better safe than sorry reality checks for me... Any of you have similar research?Anyways, I thought I would share my experiences so that others can at least be aware of the possibilities...Is there like a little report we can refer do with dates etc, but really, that was a very smart idea and I am impressed and upset I didnt think of it first.Steven D wrote:na lol im way to lazy for that sort of thing, I dont do anything if I dont get paid for it.It was a really good idea thou because its so easy to just add the extra link in your forum sig once you have the post count.It is good practice to do experiments with SEO and more so for the way you have shared it. But just a little bit of advice - do not play with Major SEs like Google, Yahoo or MSN; it may result in a ban for unbearably longer duration. Thanks.So if the forums rel="nofollow" signature links, you're protected from any sort of penalty & can actually only benefit from the human visitors that follow the new links, right ?Quote:joebert wrote:Steven D wrote:It's a good thing that you share your experience regarding on this matter, I don't have much time to test things like this but sometimes I do so I appreciate the info you have shared! Thanks man! Woohoo Airwolf DVD ! ATNO/TW wrote:Hey there,About the forum signature conversion statement..Forums can be effective IF you are posting signature links on a forum that relates to your niche product(s). If you are posting messages on a real estate forum, and your signature links are about selling music, a lot less people are going to follow the link than if the forum was about music.It is really easy to capture the referring website. A lot more people have visited my freelance programming website from ozzu compared to the real estate forums I have posted on. I had to help my client with SEO backlinks for his real estate website.Having said that, for forums to be effective, you have to have a quality website. If you are advertising on forums in your niche, and have a crappy website, you are not going to convert traffic to money. In my opinion, people should be more focused on converting traffic to money than worrying about PR juice, etc. Sure it is a factor with google, but I think creating quality content is the best thing you can do for a website.Thats my two cents.Sincerely,Travis [email protected] scorpionagency for your sharing your research. quite interesting. from that numbers you gave it could translate somewhere 10 post a day for each forum.i do believe SE have some kind of red flag but it got to relate to human reality. how many forum posting a day is normal?algorithm is about numbers and functions so there must be 'one' number which had trigger the function. who knows maybe 5 forum posting in one forum is the number. so maybe it is not a red flag if you post 1800 for 2 months in 6 forum( 5 post a day).I was under the impression that the research was geared towards the effects of changing a signature on a forum where the 1,800 posts are established already, effectively creating 1,800 links to the page being linked to almost instantly.I could swear I seen somthing about this at Sitepoint when they lifted the nofollow from signatures there, if I remember right people freaked at first but it worked out for the better in most cases.