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Does forum triggers spamming? -Getting backlink from forum in the form of signature or creating acct

by promo87 Banned
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Hey Warriors,
We were hit by the manual penalty previously, so we came down to the process of link removal we have removed more than 6K backlinks and worked over day and night to clean us up. But after a month what we have received is still unnatural links are pointing to our sites. I don't know what the problem is but this time on the sample links they have notified forums, yes they have notified about the forums some of the good forums and the problem Google sees is in the forum profile in which we have just mentioned our homepage URL. What I mean to say here is we have check the forum its Alexa DA,PA,Page Ranks everything is just more than perfect even I have look made account only only those forum which is related to our niche but still Google is having problem with the profile created over the forum. Now my major concern here is how can I know which forum is harmful or Good? I mean I was thinking this whole time that forum participation is good, for getting good backlink from the signature panel but now it looks forum participation is also bad. If not then how to check which forum is good and which forum is bad ? :confused:
#acct #backlink #creating #form #forum #signature #spamming #triggers
  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Are you talking about the site in your sig? I'm not very surprised... 24K backlinks and Majestic SEO is reporting stats you could easily get with less than 1/10 of those links and not much effort put into the link building.

    I'm just going by what Majestic says (because I'm kinda busy and a bit lazy), but I'd first try to weed out sites that have their main focus in something else than software development / programming (or whatever is your focus). Get rid of "SEO directories", web design directories, bad article sites, and stuff like that - low quality by definition.
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    Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
    Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

    What's your excuse?
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    • Profile picture of the author promo87
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      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      Are you talking about the site in your sig? I'm not very surprised... 24K backlinks and Majestic SEO is reporting stats you could easily get with less than 1/10 of those links and not much effort put into the link building.

      I'm just going by what Majestic says (because I'm kinda busy and a bit lazy), but I'd first try to weed out sites that have their main focus in something else than software development / programming (or whatever is your focus). Get rid of "SEO directories", web design directories, bad article sites, and stuff like that - low quality by definition.
      Well, according to our Google webmaster tool it is showing 7,551 backlink i think your Majestic SEO tools is giving you outdated and incorrect information. We have already put our efforts on taking down the links from the article directories, web-design directories, low quality stuff like that.... anyway thanks for your input.
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by promo87 View Post

        Well, according to our Google webmaster tool it is showing 7,551 backlink i think your Majestic SEO tools is giving you outdated and incorrect information.
        That's very likely. I'm not sure when Majestic has had their last update, but it might be couple of weeks old. However, they're showing a sharp increase in lost links - their spider has already gotten a glimpse of your cleanup efforts.

        I've been a bit paranoid about sig links myself, and removed most of them from the few sites I use. You can never be sure about the context of the page your link is on.
        Signature
        Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
        Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

        What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author DizenSounds
    This is exactly your problem and likely why you should hire a third party link removal service as it seems you are way to close to the situation to have a good understanding of how it works.

    Just because the "SEO metrics" are good doesn't mean the link is good, that's not how it works and if thats the story you have been telling Google it's no wonder they haven't revoked your penalty.

    The point is you got caught cheating and built links that are against Google's T.O.S.

    Newsflash: Links that are outside of Google's terms aren't links that have bad "seo metrics". It's probably all of the links you built to your site.

    It's time to let someone that knows what they are do the job. No offense.
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    • Profile picture of the author promo87
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      Originally Posted by DizenSounds View Post

      This is exactly your problem and likely why you should hire a third party link removal service as it seems you are way to close to the situation to have a good understanding of how it works.

      Just because the "SEO metrics" are good doesn't mean the link is good, that's not how it works and if thats the story you have been telling Google it's no wonder they haven't revoked your penalty.

      The point is you got caught cheating and built links that are against Google's T.O.S.

      Newsflash: Links that are outside of Google's terms aren't links that have bad "seo metrics". It's probably all of the links you built to your site.

      It's time to let someone that knows what they are do the job. No offense.
      well, thanks for your input @DizenSounds but I am really not convinced of hiring some SEO specialist I am sure with the proper guidance from some of the reputed members here in the forum I will get out with it this trouble to and as far as the traffic is concerned I don't care too much about it because we are getting okay okay traffic from the search engine as well as the referral. So, this just leaves me in starting with the link removal process again from the scratch.
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  • Profile picture of the author Advertising
    I am under the impression that any nofollow links that you might have are safe as far as search is concerned.
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    • Profile picture of the author promo87
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      Originally Posted by Advertising View Post

      I am under the impression that any nofollow links that you might have are safe as far as search is concerned.
      Yes I know that but here my major concern is asking you all that when did Google started considering the forum signature as the bad backlink.
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  • Profile picture of the author tantykimi
    Doesn't look good on your side. Have you tried hiring someone to get rid of these links?
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    • Profile picture of the author promo87
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      Originally Posted by tantykimi View Post

      Doesn't look good on your side. Have you tried hiring someone to get rid of these links?
      No, I don't prefer hiring someone to get rid of those links I prefer it doing own my own.
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  • Profile picture of the author patco
    Forums that are related to the niche should be preferred. But don't forget that in most cases you should write the signature to look as natural as possible. Also, don't forget that in the most cases the backlinks would be nofollow!
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    • Profile picture of the author promo87
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      Originally Posted by patco View Post

      Forums that are related to the niche should be preferred. But don't forget that in most cases you should write the signature to look as natural as possible. Also, don't forget that in the most cases the backlinks would be nofollow!
      Yes, I am having signature only from the forum that is related to my niche and we are no using any kind of technique that looks which makes our signature unnatural or any we are not using any special type of .........
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