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or we need to whitelist the links first?

how does that work?

Very few forums disallow signature links, and none suffer any major penalties, indeed most forums are crawled regularly so having a new site in your signature is a great way to get it crawled fast. Certainly I have seen no penalties relating to off topic relevancy I suspect that the large amount of relevant traffic helps, unlike a static site a forum is dynamic, and always updating so its relevancy is based more on trust authority then anything else. I can see a time when relevancy would be an issue, a new forum could have problems if its posted to irregularly and spam forums where they have been over run by irrelevant links.

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that is good to hear. thanks for the info tim.

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I can see a time when relevancy would be an issue, a new forum could have problems if its posted to irregularly and spam forums where they have been over run by irrelevant links.

that makes sense...

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So we should keep this the way it is, right?

Sometimes is really hard to understand what the community wants, I guess

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So we should keep this the way it is, right?

Sometimes is really hard to understand what the community wants, I guess

I'm not the community, but I like to see more than 20 active members every minute, to get this we need organic traffic

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You are right. I wont let anything ruin the rankings that this site gets, but what I found in time is that a community actually promoted by its members. So the first thing is to keep members motivated and rewarded for their contribution.

On the other hand I don't think this change will have any impact to the SERPs. I guess it is too soon to speak for that. So for the moment we will leave it as is, and later we can see what we can do, right?

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yeah. if it turns out bad, you can always return it to nofollow. thanks Nik! i really appreciate the spiderable links.

but what I found in time is that a community actually promoted by its members

sure thing. and you know what, all the banner ad credits for the banner i use for my topic posts i will give to Webdigity with my referral link.

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sure thing. and you know what, all the banner ad credits for the banner i use for my topic posts i will give to Webdigity with my referral link.

Really? I appreciate that

I've got links to here from my blog and my personal site's "Interests" page. I'm hoping it helps out this forum, cause it's one of my favorites. I've also noticed that my traffic has risen substantially since I decided to become a "Community Supporter" and paid for a link on the front page. A couple thousand ranks in Alexa might not sound much, but to me, it's better than staying put. 

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I've got links to here from my blog and my personal site's "Interests" page. I'm hoping it helps out this forum, cause it's one of my favorites. I've also noticed that my traffic has risen substantially since I decided to become a "Community Supporter" and paid for a link on the front page. A couple thousand ranks in Alexa might not sound much, but to me, it's better than staying put. 

I am glad that this worked for you. Hope it will work for everyone else here

It also helps that I'm running a 25 member referral contest, I suppose. According to my host, I've used up 8% of my bandwith (30GB/month) already, and I've only had the site with him since January.

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