Michael Brown Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 I'm such a complete dweeb....I don't know what any of this means or portends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Brown Posted March 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted March 22, 2015 Report Share Posted March 22, 2015 ...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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted March 23, 2015 Report Share Posted March 23, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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