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November 21st, 2005, 09:59 AM

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Do these policies affect Forums.devshed.com ?

hey admins,

just a quick check...

do the following posts have anything to do with us here on devshed?

http://forums.seochat.com/suggestio...ures-59549.html

And if it does.. what is the outcome of Rich's post

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Originally Posted by posted by Rich on November 18th, 2005, 09:34 PM

As far as the signatures, I will replace them to thier previous functionality right now, and will follow up on link restrictions within them on Monday.

if this thread is inappropriate please feel free to close or delete it.

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November 21st, 2005, 11:19 AM

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I'd assume yes, devshed is the largest of the forums so it's the last one they normally make changes to, but I believe it's comming soon.

I didn't know about the nofollow attribute so I looked it up, a good article on it can be found here

I think this is a pretty good idea, it's kinda to bad our sigs won't count but because they can (and are) used as spam it's worth it.

What about the users home page in there profile? Will that also contain a nofollow? Or will that be allowed?

[offtopic]
how many times do people link the word here

(or other common words) from google
Results 1 - 30 of about 4,570,000,000 for here

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November 21st, 2005, 11:27 AM

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I'm a little hesitant to say this is a good thing. I was counting on using my sig later this year (maybe in the new year) to help promote my own lil website.

Its a marginal gain for SE rankings true.. but when your site's a fledgeling..every drop counts. Besides after 3000+ plus posts here on devshed i was kinda 'hoping' to get something from here.

its not a big deal for me actually.. but .. oh well.. i think the at least 2 or 3 live link option would be a nice solution.

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November 21st, 2005, 11:37 AM

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^^ Chief agrees. I read somewhere that SEs give less priority to links
found on bulletin boards, for obvious reasons. Besides, when our sigs
only show once per page, it's not gonna cause any SEO problems.

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November 21st, 2005, 02:04 PM

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Man... people really got upset over that over there. Reminds me of the lounge changes here.

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November 21st, 2005, 02:07 PM

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Man... people really got upset over that over there. Reminds me of the lounge changes here.

Well it is an SEO forum, of course they will.

These (and those) forums have a pagerank of 6, its only natural people would be upset.

I don't see it's doing any harm letting us have it, especially given our contributions to the forum (i'm not *all* troll)...

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November 21st, 2005, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by LinuxPenguin

Well it is an SEO forum, of course they will.

Sanctimonious and Egregious Opinions? ;-)

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November 21st, 2005, 02:29 PM

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Sanctimonious and Egregious Opinions? ;-)

Silly Expansions of acrOnyms?

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November 21st, 2005, 04:36 PM

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Sh*t have you looked at the signatures over there? Remortage your house! get a home loan! find out how I made $$$$$ last month, online casino...etc spam garbage. I hate SEO people with a passion.

Edit: Strange that the ones with those signatures are the ones bitching about the nofollow...

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November 21st, 2005, 04:43 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Jcaputo in SEO Chat forums

[...] We have made these changes to our other forums and have had great success traffic wise with these changes.

(Emphasis added.) Perhaps these changes have already been made? Jonathan? Rich? Could an admin please clear this up for us?

Thanks.

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November 21st, 2005, 06:11 PM

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