Matt Cutts, Google SEO: Remove Link Anchor Text In Forum Signatures

I didn't see it myself, but if it's true, my response is "meh". I don't care much about my SEO. I post in forums to attract real people, not search bots.

yeah... you DO practice what you preach... your anchor text is "click here" =D

Is this what you're looking for? How do I know which links to remove when I get an "unnatural links" message?

[sarcastically paraphrasing Matt Cutts] "Over time, we are trying to 'exhaust' every link that is not beneficial to our mass marketing platform... so, it boils down to this; we can't quite tell you 'which of your links' are bad... but we can tell you; that we are on a mission to eradicate any and or all potential threats to our monopolization and systematical detraction of what is? and what is not? acceptable for you, the webmaster to be privileged to do in our information universe." [...end of paraphrasing sarcasm]

I gave up on trying to please 'G' in terms of SEO, for it's almost like dealing with a bi-polar drunk on a Saturday night at the Irish Pub! - Makes me a wee bit angry, it does, it does, lol.

However, the video basically confirms; they want webmasters to 'earn' relative backlinks, as opposed to purchasing or manipulating the SERP's... and at times it makes sense... let the best, most relevant content rank higher than those who fudge a bunch of backlinks, like was so with article directories.

*Not sure that video fits the description of 'signature links' (?) - either way, I had fun with it.

And with that I bid thee Goodnight!

This thread is only going to get more views than replies.

Stop worrying about Matt and focus on building a sustainable business model.

I'm sure this dude also own an Internet business that relies on SEO since he knows the ins and outs. Scaring you away leaves him with virtually no rival.

It wouldn't be too difficult to figure out a forum web page, a large percentage of forums use either vBulletin or phpBB, both leave a huge footprint. Personally I could care less what they do with forums/SEO, I use niche forums for direct niche traffic.

Meh, I don't use forum Sigs for SEO, I use them to drive traffic to my offers.

Google should change their tampon

Great post topic.. I don't think Google is really focusing on this right now.

yeah... i'll look for that specific quote... he DIRECTLY mentioned forum signature links with anchor keyword text

To have link With Money Keywords in Bulk and are irrelevant , Whether From Forums or Any other Resources are bad practices to do so .

Also Huge links by targeting same key-phrases is looks unnatural .

As Per Forum Signatures number of back-links marked from a single post that indirectly reveals a unnatural linking by targeting a keyword And purpose is to make that keyword more relevant to web page it linked so that it get top visibility .

So better Option is to target non-money keyword and general phrases .
Also From a thread with forum I read about a conference .

All Quarries that Going here may be Asked in Conference held in USA in MARCH 2103 So why not one Interesting to join and found what actually the things , Matt cutts , Duane Forrester (Sr. Product Manager at Bing) join conference as speakers , may event up to some extent or fully benefits you plan for new marketing strategies.

Here is thread where i read about today

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...ch-2013-a.html

you know in a non seo world, a link in a sig is the most natural way to "get the word out" on your site, just look at it.
you read a post
1 post catches your eye,
you agree with the poster,
if the forum is really interactive
you can give thanks or points to the poster
and then you see his/her sig and go hmm what other interests does this person that i agree with has.

why would anyone want to kill this sort of natural linking? cutts is who, an idiot.

Who cares Matt about forum "sig." backlinks after alot of google updates? Forum signature backlinks always count as low quality links. I just use it to get direct traffic.

May be it's go to be true, because Matt said in the last statement about anchor text rich links.

I too agree..as Google is in full form now..it can update this new algorithm soon...But it will be for Google to take care of every forum.

If you use anchor link for a particular text or keywords, it would definitely attract the penultimate action. Matt from google team always says that there is no need to be in panic because of updates until you are doing good SEO.

You can use niche forums to generate traffic, btw i am not seeing of any side effect of doing forum commenting.

So the "biggest scraper site in the world", Google - who's entire business model is based on selling links and scraping other people's content and showing ads next to it - gets their panties in a bind when you do the same thing.

I stopped listening to Google's Minister of Propaganda a long time ago.

this is not really new information... it has always been like this, just try to tweak the perfect anchor text percentage.

It's obvious...you're NOT SUPPOSED to pick your own anchor text or really build links as it's unnatural and against Google's TOS. It has been this way for many many years. Le sigh.

Hi Art:
It is like having a girlfriend that is super crazy. She is full of paranoia. Thinks you are part of a giant conspiracy. Yeah, as in hearing some voices. However, just when you think you finally can figure her out, she goes even more insane.