Sigs and Search Engine Value

ecchi · 2005-09-20, 01:17 PM

If anyone really hopes to get better PR from your sig, remember that Google only spiders occasionally, and on a dynamic site like this it only views a few pages each pass (I forget how many, but Google do tell you somewhere on their site, if anyone desperately needs to know). So the majority of threads will never be indexed. If you want your sig seen you will have to point Google at the pages with your sig on it by creating a page of links to the threads you are on, and submitting it to Google. (This will probably also help GG&J's PR as well.)

However if you are like me, and change your sig from time to time, you are probably wasting your time, because as soon as Google re-checks the pages that now have a different sig on it, they will drop your PR again.

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2005-09-20, 01:17 PM	#12
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	If anyone really hopes to get better PR from your sig, remember that Google only spiders occasionally, and on a dynamic site like this it only views a few pages each pass (I forget how many, but Google do tell you somewhere on their site, if anyone desperately needs to know). So the majority of threads will never be indexed. If you want your sig seen you will have to point Google at the pages with your sig on it by creating a page of links to the threads you are on, and submitting it to Google. (This will probably also help GG&J's PR as well.) However if you are like me, and change your sig from time to time, you are probably wasting your time, because as soon as Google re-checks the pages that now have a different sig on it, they will drop your PR again.