Google Webmaster Tools Links Schemes FORUM SIGNATURES

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Recently I discovered that Google has added to its policy about link schemes and now includes the following explanation

""""Forum comments with optimized links in the post or signature, for example:
Thanks, that's great info!
- Paul
paul's pizza san diego pizza best pizza san diego"""""

So what exactly does this mean for forum signatures? Does it mean that we should not use anchor text in our forum signatures and that we would be better off linking to our website as linktomywebsite.org when using a signature?

Any clarification would greatly be appreciated.
#search engine optimization #forum #google #links #schemes #signatures #tools #webmaster
  • Anchor text is fine so long as you don't keyword stuff it.

    For example:

    When you are in San Diego, check out the best pizzas from Paul's Pizza.
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    • Speaking of Signature links, any idea why ours aren't showing on this forum at the moment?

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    • Yeah, you go right on and keep believing that. It is really easy to identify signature links in the code if they choose to.
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  • Google scours millions of web pages. They know what each platform is. WordPress is coded in a specific way, as are forums, as are WordPress comments. People don't understand that EVERYTHING they do on the internet leaves a footprint. Each link that is made, each comment that is written, GBot gets smarter.

    How do you think GBot pulls down networks? it collects data, notices the same prints, sends it off for manual investigation.
  • Google doesn't want you picking your anchor text..this is unnaturally inflating your own ranking thus a link scheme.
  • hmm..this is a pretty good eye opener
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