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 Feb 25 2009, 04:40 PM
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 irc.zymic.com #zymic  Group: Root Admin Posts: 1,473 Joined: 28-February 07 From: England, UK Member No.: 4  |
Hello,
In another effort to crack down on people trying to take advantage of free link backs we have removed signatures for guest viewings. We have also added the no-follow link attribute to all outgoing links as well. Solely replying or creating a topic just to gain link backs on search engines is not tolerated. |
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Aug 20 2009, 06:47 PM
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Super Duper Ninja Group: Members Posts: 445 Joined: 20-October 07 From: Canada Member No.: 1,615 |
Wouldn't it be better just to not allow the posting of links and having signatures for new members? Just my two cents.
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Aug 30 2009, 04:37 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 6-April 08 Member No.: 17,542 |
That's funny, but I think a forum devoted to web serving is going to need links posted.
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Aug 31 2009, 01:38 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 12 Joined: 10-February 09 Member No.: 81,603 |
Are you sure you know what you're doing?
I don't know the amount of visibility that the search engines (considering that they show up as users without profiles, I assume they're preregistered by the forum and therefore may see signatures anyway) have. This move is effective in a "I don't vouch for this link, make the link points 'disappear in transit'." kind of way. Nofollow is honored (except by Yahoo I hear) but the association, especially if the link anchor text is the url and notably if the word combinations between pages are unique enough, will be there. If there's a tracker on either page (or the browser), and then if there's a statistically significant amount of traffic through a link, a search engine may give more weight to users and award points anyway in regards to potential webmaster error or "points shaping attempts". I would say in the end this move could be called a partial solution to the problem. A better solution would be to prune inactive forum users, or their profiles at least. It solves both DB size issues and "Silent spammers", which do not even post. Of course the best solution to the problem would be to get your hands dirty and look at links yourself. |
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Sep 2 2009, 08:55 AM
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 Outrageously Uber Ninja Group: Moderators Posts: 1,805 Joined: 10-July 08 From: UK Member No.: 44,994 |
We do 'get our hands dirty' and check the links ourselves, about every 3 days atm.
Most forums have a 'free pass' for Google ect, but this one doesn't even need that as none of the threads are protected - you need to register to write, but not to read. Swordz |
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Dec 18 2011, 11:18 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 24-November 11 Member No.: 219,341 |
QUOTE(sclek @ Aug 20 2009, 06:47 PM)  Wouldn't it be better just to not allow the posting of links and having signatures for new members? Just my two cents. these things are not gonna help them in all situation, we need something like a jack of all... |
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