Google's Updated Guildlines Regarding Link Schemes

[Michael Brown]

Google has updated their link schemes guidelines to include:

Widely distributed links in the footers or templates of various sites

That means those site credit links in your footers and sidebars that say "site design by ****" etc. are included. Remove those links or add a nofollow tag to them is the recommendation.

This was also recently backed up by Google's engineer:

I definitely put a nofollow rule for those links.

Revisiting some old info on link schemes but relating to forum signatures and posts (mentioned as we still have a few doing it).

For example:

Thanks for the info!

- Paul

paul's home inspector, san diego inspector, best inspector san diego

So what is acceptable? Your naked link or your brands keywords on your link.

More info on link schemes:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356

Michael

[kurt]

I'm such a complete dweeb....I don't know what any of this means or portends.

[Michael Brown]

I'm such a complete dweeb....I don't know what any of this means or portends.

For your own website it would mean removing the link:

site by littlegreencube

or changing it to read:

site by littlegreencube

For your forum signature:

Use:

http://www.kurtmitenbuler.com/

or

kurtmitenbuler

Don't use "Chicago Home Inspector" etc. as the anchor text for your website link.

Hope that helps explain a little better.

Michael

[kurt]

OK, thanks. Since i don't know how to do any of that, I'll deal with the fall out. I'm building a new site anyway where I will know how to do that stuff.

[hausdok]

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Deleted by admin: It was so wrong it couldn't be fixed.

It explains on the very first link:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356

[kurt]

This sounds wrong, but I don't really want to show up at the top of everyone's search. At least, not yet. I'm busy enough. For the stuff I want them to find, so far, they've been finding it.