Changes in signature rules

[bb28]

I've been giving this thread some thought this afternoon. First I have no personal motive in stating my opinion as I'm not an active affiliate and I have no sig, so with that out of the way.
Do you think that you could reconsider this decision, please? The reasons are that the good webmasters here have put in a lot of hard work and time into their pages and other than the possible sign up they could gain from here, I would say their PR will be hurt greatly by removal of sigs. I understand that you'd like to stop the misuse and that you or Max or the mods don't have the time to monitor it as closely as it needs, but maybe there are a few of us who would volunteer to be watchdogs for you.

Thanks for your consideration.


Another thought.....maybe some day in the future, you might could add an approved webmaster section with criteria much like the approved casino list.

[RobWin]

It was a two way thing; I have links to CM on all the main pages of my sites (that's about 40 pages) - should I take them off now this is a one-way deal...?

KK

I'm just thinking out loud here now, but if all of the webmasters that also have reciprocal links or just links for that matter pointing back here to Casinomeister were to all of a sudden remove those, would that not also affect the SERP's back to Casinomeister here?

No more than I know about SEO other than what I have learned this year is the fact that having many, many backlinks to your site are absolutely, undoubtedly the easiest and fastest way of showing up in the first pages of search results because all of those backlinks are what 95% of your google ranking?

Now if all of those or a large percentage of them were to suddenly disappear and the new kid comes along to do a google search for something related to a casino, then Casinomeister may not be ranking up there where they could find it or the info they were looking for directs them then back to some rogue affiliate site and not to Casinomeister. Who does that benefit? I think everyone here would agree that we want new peeps to find Casinomeister so they can get "edumacated " on what Rogue casinos are.

Someone correct me here please if this is not the way websites rank normally.
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[zanzibar]

I had removed all of mine yesterday..I will find a other alternatives to promote my site.

I have to say I am surprised that webmasters openly admit to seeing this site as a "marketing vehicle" for their own endeavours. I too run some affiliate websites but would not dream of going to another forum and plastering my links all over every post I make, then complain when the forum owner decides to stop the practice.

If you are scared of linking to CM because your website visitors may never come back to your site then perhaps that is saying something about the value of your site to visitors. If SEO is all you care about, then you should be aware that linking out from a site to an established "authority domain" in your site's field can actually be positive for your rankings. Take a look at the bottom of the pokerlistings homepage for example, do you think they link to google or dmoz out of the goodness of their hearts?

RobWin, yes lots of aggrieved affiliates pulling their links to CM could have a small negative effect on this site's search rankings, but the removal of 10000+ (? just a guess) outgoing links from this site will probably have a far greater positive effect to this site than that, due to the net gain in "link juice" to internal pages on this domain.

[GGW Laurie]

Let me see if i have this right, i can no longer go to KK's or Robs or Bingot's site from here if i wish to see what new casino they may have a promo on?

As a player i always liked to check out the sites and can understand why they would be upset, looks as if they have put alot of hard work and sweat into their respective sites.

The sites i have visited do give good advice and make mention of this forum, which is a good thing, for new players, i sure wouldnt want them to get hooked up with a rogue promoting affy...........just a regular ole players take on it...........laurie

[chuchu59]

Yes you can Laurie. Just click on the username and then the homepage of that member. I clicked Rob's username and then homepage and was diverted to his site. As long as their usernames are in GREEN and any member wishes to enter their sites, he can still do so easily.

[GGW Laurie]

Yes you can Laurie. Just click on the username and then the homepage of that member. I clicked Rob's username and then homepage and was diverted to his site. As long as their usernames are in GREEN and any member wishes to enter their sites, he can still do so easily.

.....well i feel so DUH now lol thanx Chu

[vegetagirl2008]

I have to say I am surprised that webmasters openly admit to seeing this site as a "marketing vehicle" for their own endeavours. I too run some affiliate websites but would not dream of going to another forum and plastering my links all over every post I make, then complain when the forum owner decides to stop the practice.

If you are scared of linking to CM because your website visitors may never come back to your site then perhaps that is saying something about the value of your site to visitors. If SEO is all you care about, then you should be aware that linking out from a site to an established "authority domain" in your site's field can actually be positive for your rankings. Take a look at the bottom of the pokerlistings homepage for example, do you think they link to google or dmoz out of the goodness of their hearts?

RobWin, yes lots of aggrieved affiliates pulling their links to CM could have a small negative effect on this site's search rankings, but the removal of 10000+ (? just a guess) outgoing links from this site will probably have a far greater positive effect to this site than that, due to the net gain in "link juice" to internal pages on this domain.

First of all I do not under no circumstances use this site as a vehicle to promote anything. So you well know I removed my links as I felt they should not be there in the first place. I have no reason to spam my links to get paid. I have a full time job and this is only to make a little cash on the side. In no way shape or form will I spam anything I detest it. Maybe I should of worded it differently. But please make no mistake that was not my intention. I would rather put a graphic signature there instead. This is why I refrain from posting in the introduction thread.

[RobWin]

I have to say I am surprised that webmasters openly admit to seeing this site as a "marketing vehicle" for their own endeavours. I too run some affiliate websites but would not dream of going to another forum and plastering my links all over every post I make, then complain when the forum owner decides to stop the practice.

If you are scared of linking to CM because your website visitors may never come back to your site then perhaps that is saying something about the value of your site to visitors. If SEO is all you care about, then you should be aware that linking out from a site to an established "authority domain" in your site's field can actually be positive for your rankings. Take a look at the bottom of the pokerlistings homepage for example, do you think they link to google or dmoz out of the goodness of their hearts?

RobWin, yes lots of aggrieved affiliates pulling their links to CM could have a small negative effect on this site's search rankings, but the removal of 10000+ (? just a guess) outgoing links from this site will probably have a far greater positive effect to this site than that, due to the net gain in "link juice" to internal pages on this domain.

But I thought that google recently changed that, and the way that link juice was distributed between internal pages?
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[RobWin]

.....well i feel so DUH now lol thanx Chu

Don't feel DUH, heck..I did not realize that that feature was there either. Bryan must have snuck that one in on us today...
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[vegetagirl2008]

I had removed all of mine yesterday..I will find a other alternatives to promote my site.

I didn't mean this quote. I removed my links and demoted myself to Meister Member. I will never use my links on Casinomeister for monetary gain. I apologize to anyone that may have been offended on the above.