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Phre0nBurn

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So I just searched for my business on G.
My website was first and second, third was a thread on a forum about business sucking right now, and 4th was my thread from WF titled "Fucking Ebay!"

hahaha

So to anyone as periodically stupid as me. If you have a physical business, where an image matters, don't include your info in your sig.

Anyone know how long that will stay in G for?
I removed my sig, but that doesn't change whats already indexed.
 


Phre0nBurn said:
So I just searched for my business on G.
My website was first and second, third was a thread on a forum about business sucking right now, and 4th was my thread from WF titled "Fucking Ebay!"

hahaha

So to anyone as periodically stupid as me. If you have a physical business, where an image matters, don't include your info in your sig.

Anyone know how long that will stay in G for?
I removed my sig, but that doesn't change whats already indexed.
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It'll stay up for a little while maybe a month or so before they come around again, they index this forum lots and every time I've changed my sig I don't usually remember changes taking longer then a month.
 
I'm also running with a theory now that "G" is punishing you for having your links in forums. It's the only reason I can think of for a few of my WH sites to be loosing PR.

Still get traffic, still rank well, so I don't really care - but that's all I can think of. They all have A LOT of legit links from relevant places. The only common thread on the ones losing ground is forum signatures.
 
stma - I think so too

I made the mistake of posting a link on some board with the initials DP and that site got spanked. Google fucked me hard on that in like 3 days. It was a 0 PR site but I was ranking 15th for something then disappeared...
 
So what you guys are saying is: All I have to do to take out my competitors is give them all sig links on a bunch of forums? I think it's something else you aren't seeing.
 
Like? I was doing the same techniques for a month or so. The site that got that link dropped other similar sites didnt...

I dont know why everyone thinks search engine are so smart. I have thought for years they are dumb as toast.
 
Think about it - If I post 1k times with the same signature. What's different to the algorithm google uses between that and someone using xrumer?

I'm not saying that's why my WH sites got spanked - could be the way I link internally on the site. My keywords, or just that I slept wrong and someone from google heard about it.

No clue - but the ONLY common thread between the ones that got spanked were that I'd promoted via LOT's of forum signatures.
 
When it comes to search engines, I would never outright dismiss anything. But if its the case it would be really easy to punish all your competitors. You can put anything in a sig or a link, and of course its not always your site.

There is also the issue of penalty vs. devalued. Such as if a link at one point was valued so much that it contributed to a ranking, but then is devalued and results in drops. Helping less and Hurting are different. There are so many factors. I have had SERPs change by 1000+ with no f-ing clue and things bounce all over the place and try to guess what it is. Sometimes I fnd no explanation. 1ways are not supposed to ever hurt you, but who knows. I tend to think it depends on a lot of factors. If i went out and put 1000 sig links( in "bad" sites/forums) to some huge trusted authority site with the best rankings in my niche, I doubt it would hurt them. That would make it too easy to knock people out.
 
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Sooner or later Google's punishment on backlinking methods will turn on them. They will keep punishing, and webmasters will keep devaluing their price on a link to keep getting advertisers. When it finally gets low enough, which could already be now, the value of the link being on a website just for visitors (not page rank) will have more value like it used to be before Google. Webmasters will learn to rely on traffic other than search engines.
 
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