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« on: June 12, 2003, 01:41:20 PM » |
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I was just wondering if search engines look through forum pages when indexing and do they include the signatures as links. I've heard that the more links you have to your site the better position you will have. Which is why some people are happy just getting an ad on another site even if no one clicks on it.
For example, if I had 15 posts in this forum, would a search engine after indexing the forum count those 15 links to my site when considering how big, important, popular etc?
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Steve
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armchairtraveller
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« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2003, 01:43:50 PM » |
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Cause if they do people could really take advantage of forums by almost spamming them and until moderators actually delete them, they are helping indexing. Even year-old messages that no one reads is helping a site.  |
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Steve
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JamesG
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« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2003, 02:42:00 PM » |
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i believe their is no stopping search engines doing this so yeah i suppose they do count them... but if ur thinkin bout smappin then everything i just sed is a complete lie and they dont count the links  p.s. u cud jus put your website link in your sig 25 times  |
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Adrian
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« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2003, 04:05:18 PM » |
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They only count on pages that google has indexed - which sounds totally obvious - what I mean is that on a forum like this one, no they don't count because the URLs contain question marks, and google won't follow links from dynamically generated pages. From static forums however (ezboard maybe?) google will index the pages and follow the links, so they will count.
I read something a couple of months ago about google changing to index more dynamic pages, but I don't know if that was truth or rumour.
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Coon
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« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2003, 04:16:59 PM » |
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Adrian is right. I do have a couple of links that Google counts but that's because my post was on a ezBoard and not a PHP forum like this one. However, I did have one or two threads on some vBulletin forums that Google picked up for some reason. But yeah, if you go off and start threads with your links in them, there will be no chance for you to get them all in the engines listings. Do it the fair way  |
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armchairtraveller
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« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2003, 07:13:12 PM » |
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True for legit websites whose image is important spamming those boards with signature lines isn't ethical. It looks bad. However it might be an issue for less reputable sites out there to pull it off, bumping down legit sites.  |
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Steve
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« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2003, 09:04:30 PM » |
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Im not sure about this, but im pretty sure that the google spider doesnt know what a forum is!! It has no idea whether the page it is viewing is a forum or a ordinary page. Yes its true that it wont follow dynamically created links. It will only follow them if theres a link to one!  stunz |
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armchairtraveller
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« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2003, 03:10:44 AM » |
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Here's another coin for the fountain if anyone's following this. I've only got a single listing with google (new at this) and it's from a forum at Graphics.com.
Now don't everyone run there, but it's a good place for links to your site if you're starving for them and have some feedback or info to offer.
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« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2003, 04:35:24 AM » |
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Just an addition to this topic, if you post regularly on a particular forum (or site), and put your site link in all your sigs, google would only count that as only one link to your site because they are coming from the same domain. It would disregard all the other links to your site from that forum because it already followed and recorded the first link it saw.
What might end up happening (if you have lots and lots of links to your site on from domain), is that Google might think you're trying to spam your site to search engines, which would blacklist it from updates for a while I'd imagine.
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Adrian
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« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2003, 05:57:40 AM » |
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Not so my good man! I have put lots of links to the Politics Forum on my old website (every page) and today I was presently surprised to see that PoliticsForum.org is now the number one result on Google for a search for "Politics Forum" |
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« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2003, 10:58:35 AM » |
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Dynamically generated pages which use mod_rewrite to make the page layout look static will be indexed by Google. My site is an excellent example.
Perhaps someone could write a set of mod_rewrite rules for phpBB.
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