warning, don't change your signature

[majmes2412]

Originally Posted by CanzDesign

We've just rebuilt our website, so all the urls are different, somethings on different sites now etc, so I thought, I would update my signature here they were only links to handy tutorials..... anyway, changed it, and just checked all the old posts have no sig at all now.....

I always thought my signuture was good cause I didn't send people just to may site, but to specilific tutorials, that people found helpful and useful and now they are all gone......

Oh well that s word happens......

how do you add a signature?

[fisicx]

30 days and 15 posts. It's to put off the spammers and those whose only reason for posting is to link drop.

[MrCat]

Originally Posted by peterjhale

I think also that vbulletin (the software running this forum) runs jobs every x number of hours - so if you change a sig, it will have to go through all the thousands of posts to undertake this

This is what I'm thinking as the reason also.

But I guess the OP's problem has already been resolved

[simonr]

On a related note - if I change my sig (because I'm bored or whatever! ) do all the old sigs change? If so, how does Google like that? For examle, if I now point to a newsite do allllll my posts point to it? That would be a shed-load of inbound links in one day which Google might take offence at....?

Simon

[OldWelshGuy]

it's a risk indeed Like everything else though, it depends on your trust in Google.

[TWD-Tony]

Yes, all your previous post's will relect the new sig change - I wouldn't worry about Google though - it won't spider all 36,085 (at last count) posts at once...

[simonr]

Originally Posted by TWD-Tony

Yes, all your previous post's will relect the new sig change - I wouldn't worry about Google though - it won't spider all 36,085 (at last count) posts at once...

Good point!

Assuming that, I wonder if it's not a good idea to change sigs occationally then make things different for Google - active stuff and all that.....?

S

[OldWelshGuy]

Significant changes to the anchor text in links pointing to your site is not a good idea. By all means chane the anchor text if you are changing your anchor text, but leaving the link pointing to the same page with different anchor text sitewide is really not ideal.

In itself it is not a big deal, but if those links are making up a chunk of your theming, then it could hurt your rankings.