Changes in signature rules

[JHV]

You gonna hang around for awhile zanzibar? I've gotta decide how much I'm going to lose on the Lions / Bulldogs game in an hour or and also exhausted but would you be cool to chat SEO in a new thread on the w/e or next week?

Or should I be starting that thread like RIGHT now to increase my chances of stealing / begging SEO smrts from you?

My little kid tilted at a bad beat sig is cool right? Or you guys find all sigs annoying? (I can ditch the little fella - he shouldn't even be gambling anyway.)

/end hijack

...resuming normal programming....

After reading a post from an affiliate on a casino here, be it positive or negative, I will usually go to his or hers links just to see if the post might of been bias. I can't remember in particular which threads it may have been in, but recall several times thinking after seeing the casino in question one that an affiliate promotes, "well that explains that view".

4 of a kind (and others..): If you spot a pattern of what you believe might or is likely to be bias in such a scenario...do you think it's a positive thing for the forum to bring it to public discussion or no?

I would think if you prepared a "case" and presented it fairly - the only people who'd get really offended would be the ones on whom you've hit a nerve, right? I'm not a casino affiliate, but if I was, I think I'd be happy to respond to such a concern in a public setting - but then again, I don't think I'd be the type to be biased either so it's hard for me to put myself in those shoes, so to speak...

[RobWin]

Okay, before everyone here gets all crazy about this - it's really no big deal. The SEO juice and whatever is a moot issue since the sig links are "nofollow" they have been for quite a while.

Well something has not been working right then regarding the "nofollow" for at least the last 5 or 6 months if that's the case. Google Webmaster Tools is showing me where I have 567 backlinks from here and everyone of them is from forum posts with the exception of 2 that were being picked up from my profile page. I could actually post a pic to show you this but there is no need unless you really want me too.

Your other idea about the profile page and blog are good ideas too and I sincerely appreciate that..
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[Casinomeister]

Well something has not been working right then regarding the "nofollow" for at least the last 5 or 6 months if that's the case. Google Webmaster Tools is showing me where I have 567 backlinks from here and everyone of them is from forum posts with the exception of 2 that were being picked up from my profile page. I could actually post a pic to show you this but there is no need unless you really want me too.

Your other idea about the profile page and blog are good ideas too and I sincerely appreciate that..
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You're whitelisted - that's why. So are you KK.

[RobWin]

You're whitelisted - that's why. So are you KK.

You da man Bryan, I don't care what Webzcas and Spear and Max and Simmo say about you.....you da man in my book!!!
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[4 of a kind]

4 of a kind (and others..):If you spot a pattern of what you believe might or is likely to be bias in such a scenario...do you think it's a positive thing for the forum to bring it to public discussion or no?

Yes I think it would be positive.

I being a recent new member here, would not bring to light my opinion of a biased post. Not knowing exactly what the personal agenda might be for any one individual, along with not knowing what is considered the norm here yet. Especially when most affiliates here have been long time members with thousands of posts.

[lots0]

Rob, I have many links that point to the site in my profile from Casinomeister and I have never used links in my sig.

The profile link to members sites has been there as long as I can remember.

For the SEO novices... vBulletin (the software the powers CM) allows the passing of PageRank from links listed in the user profile when the user posts, as long as the user/member is whitelisted by the forum. This explains why there are links showing up from CM to your site... when all the sig links were no-followed.

So in other words... If you are concerned about the the Passing of PageRank from CM to your site... Just make sure the link in your profile is up to date and that Bryan has you white listed.

Also, If you have a lot of links from one site to another, there is an issue of diminishing returns... A few links are good... A lot of links are good as well... but not better than just a few... get my drift?

[KasinoKing]

As the mass PM states, I'm killing the URLs in signatures...
That's it. If you have a hyperlinked sig, you may want to change it to text before I turn the URLs off, They will look fugly if you don't.

I see some people still have their links, so until you actually turn them off I've put a very discrete one in too.

KK

[WagerWitch]

I see some people still have their links, so until you actually turn them off I've put a very discrete one in too.

KK

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Be vewwwy vewwwy qwwwiiiiiwwwit.... LOL!

[wangpoker]

CM, could you whitelist my websites: bc518.com and betting88.net? Like Robwin, most of my external backlinks are from casinomeister, so it's important for me.

My sites are in Chinese, so I am not exploiting any members on CM.

Thank you.

[maxo]

I am new to this forum and it’s maybe weird to do my first post on this topic, but hope you can get me.

Casinomeister, from my perspective it's very good to have CLEAN forum without tons of URLs and ads bull*hits in signatures. Good for readers, too for google and at the end the same good for reputable posters, because whole forum going to move to higher authority level.

I believe that google and other SE's have special algorithms how to handle forums. Google can see that “this is link from forum signature” and it's possible ads etc..
Which quality conversation needs to have ads or links on almost every single post?!


All reputable (affiliate) veterans with 1000+ posts, don't be scared that you loose your PR from sig links, you are just fine if you have decent link from your Profile page, because your profile is linked from all your posts, and after this “URLs cleaning process” your profiles gets higher value because whole forum gets higher value. It's all about reputation of each individual member/poster. Google can see how many "Users Say Thank You" you get from other "reputable members" and other forum tools and things.

And spammers, they never reach "good" reputation level, even better if moderators must UN-rel=nofollow/whitelist their profiles.


These thoughts around google are just my speculations, so take it with reserve, but I always trying to be optimist.

Hope it make some senses, sorry for my language ;-)