What are the signature rules for go4expert?

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  1. technica

    technica New Member

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    Hey guys,

    What are the signature rules on the forum?
     
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    I hope u have received a PM about the rules. check in that.
     
  3. shabbir

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    Read Sig Policy. If you still have doubt do ask here.
     
  4. technica

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    Why the signatures are no-follow?
     
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    Only for users with post count less than 100
     
  6. venami

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    As I have post count less than 100, my signature should not be visible to others, right?
    But I could see that.

    Is my understanding correct?
     
  7. rekha

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    Yes venami.I think you are right.
     
  8. technica

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    so after crossing 100 post count, will my all signatures including previous 100 turn to do-follow?
     
  9. shabbir

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    No your understanding is wrong. Its visible to everybody but you do not get any benefit out of it in search engines unless you have your post count in triple digits.

    Yes all the sig links would be do-follow. Old as well as new.

    The reason we have implemented the same is because we are among the top spam lists because some of the threads also get PR3 to 4 easily like my article Design pattern in simple examples
     
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    Oh. Can you tell me how it is controlled, i.e. how a link is hidden from the search engines?
     
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    Search Engines follow an attribute in a link called rel="nofollow" which if added SE bots would not follow the links on the pages and this is added to the signatures if any user has post count in 2 digits or less
     
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    What are the possible values for the rel attribute in an anchor tag?
     
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    Any string probably. See http://gmpg.org/xfn/
     
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    this was a great idea to not to let crawlers follow the link unless post count is in 3 digits to check if the user is legit. kudos for shabbir.
     
  15. technica

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    My post count is now more than 100, still I see no-follow attribute for my signature links. Why so?
     
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    Its because of the cache of your signature and try saving it with a minor edit and you will see the new one being reflected everywhere.
     

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