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Old 03-16-2006, 06:12 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Does link in signature considered as a back link?

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I am always thinking about this issue since I am sure most of the pages in this forum can be indexed by the bot of the major SE .So will the link in signature been considered as a back link ?

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Old 03-16-2006, 06:19 AM   #2 (permalink)
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believe it or not, when i type in my site as a search term, i get about 150+ listings from here
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Old 03-17-2006, 02:06 PM   #3 (permalink)
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the pages of these forums are also web pages and a link in the signature on these pages will be considered as a back link
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Google does normally take notice of signature backlinks in forums, unless the board administrator has decided to include them in the robots.txt file.
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What infoirmation can the admin add in the robot.txt in this case ?
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So if Signature is considered as the backlinks, one of the SEM way is Webboard??
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So I have 100+ backlinks from here if I include my webpage in my siggy? Cool. This increases alexa ranking well too, huh? Imagine a forumer with let's say 20k posts.. OMG!
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